It's a vulgar word.

You might as well say, 'Why did you _swipe_ money from Percy Wintermill ?' He lent it to me because he realised how darned hard-up we are and felt sorry for me, I suppose." "For heaven's sake, George, don't tell me that you--" "Don't look so horrified, mother," he interrupted.

"I didn't tell him we were hard-up.

I merely said, from time to time, 'Let me take fifty, Percy.' I can't help it if he _suspects_, can I?
And say, Anne, he was so terribly in love with you that he would have let me take a thousand any time I wanted it, if I'd had occasion to ask him for it.

You ought to be thankful that I didn't." "Don't drag me into it," said Anne sharply.
"I admit I was fooled all along," said he, with a rueful sigh.