swaip

verb

1. To walk proudly; to sweep along.

   obsolete

   Och, for his swaiping! That was a lucky job for him, —the ill-favored, foul-mouthed blackguard, heretic and villain thief!

Where it comes from

From Middle English swaipen (“to strike, scourge”), from Old Norse sveipa (“to sweep, stroke”) and/or Old English swāpan (“to sweep”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *swaipaną (“to sweep, swing, hurl, fling”). Doublet of swoop.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry swaip (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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