swop
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English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /swɑp/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /swɒp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology 1
Noun
swop (plural swops)
- Alternative spelling of swap
Verb
swop (third-person singular simple present swops, present participle swopping, simple past and past participle swopped)
- Alternative spelling of swap
- 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 315:
- 'We make a pair, by God and by St James! / But, brother, what do you say to swopping names?'
Etymology 2
Noun
swop (uncountable)