manswear

English

Alternative forms
  • mainswear (Northern England)
  • manswere, maneswere, maneswere, mansweir (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English mansweren, from Old English mānswerian (“to forswear, perjure oneself”), from mān (“bad, criminal, false”) + swerian (“to swear”).

Verb

manswear (third-person singular simple present manswears, present participle manswearing, simple past manswore, past participle mansworn)

  1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for manswear in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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