Lyricists take note: sweven is another term for a dream, which should come in handy when looking for words that rhyme with heaven, eleven, Devin, or leaven. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Sweven”
I came across a lovely word the other day, swevin.
Swevin.
Swevin.
I don’t know what that is. Sweat heaven? I don’t know.
Yeah, it’s a gymnasium. It’s a fitness center.
Swevin, it’s a dream or a vision.
Oh, is that like Old English? What is that? Was it Scandinavian?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It comes from Old English, meaning a sleep or a dream or a vision.
But I just love it. It’s one of those words that, I don’t know, it just seems like it looks like what it is.
It’s like the word seven with a W in it. Doesn’t it just say sleep and dream?
Sweven, yeah. It’s something soft about it. It makes me feel, in the summertime, lying in a field, drowsy.
The insects buzzing.
The daisies bobbing.
And you fall asleep and wake up two hours later.
With a terrible sunburn.
But the dream is nice.
Falling into a swoon, I don’t know, swevin.
Oh yeah, there we go, related to swoon maybe.
I mean it feels like swoon.
It feels like that and also heaven.
A little nap in the middle of the afternoon.
I fell into a swevin.
We would fall into a swevin if you would give us a call.
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