Definitions for sweer

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Spelling: [sweer]
IPA: /swɪər/

Sweer is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in sweer (eersw).

Definitions for sweer

adjective

  1. slothful; indolent.
  2. unwilling; reluctant.

Origin of sweer

before 900; Middle English swer(e), Old English swær(e) heavy, sluggish; cognate with German schwer

Examples for sweer

Sweet i' the bed and sweer up i' the morning was ne'er a gude housewife.

Whatever as thou sayest oi will sweer to; but I would reyther change places.

I'm sweer to part with him, but canna stem the current which flows from the advice of his patrons and his own inclination.

Ye've admitted that the half-breeds are baith deid; and John Baptist will sweer that ye had their canoe and Cambon's gun.

In the provincial dialects these words are even now pronounced beer, teer, sweer.

Word Value for sweer
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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