sweer
Americanadjective
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slothful; indolent.
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unwilling; reluctant.
verb
Etymology
Origin of sweer
before 900; Middle English swer ( e ), Old English swær ( e ) heavy, sluggish; cognate with German schwer
Example Sentences
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She shook her head, and, misunderstanding her, he cried, with his knuckles in his eye, “I’ll gie you them baith, though I’m michty sweer to part wi’ Spotty.”
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
‘I’m sweer to waken him—I doubt he was working late—oh, that weary writing—no, I maunna waken him.’
From Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
There’s just a waukrif twa or three: Thrawn commentautors sweer to ’gree, Weans glowrin’ at the bumlin’ bee On windie-glasses, Or lads that tak a keek a-glee At sonsie lasses.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
And now we've come to the night I'm so sweer to speak about.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Na, na, Maister Weelum; dreams are queer, contrary, unchancy things to sweer by.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
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