forswunk

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English forswunken, past participle of forswinken (“to overwork”), equivalent to for- +‎ swunk. More at forswink. === Adjective === forswunk (not comparable) (obsolete) totally worn out from work 1943, "Just Another Word: Comprising A Word in Your Ear & Just Another Word", Ivor John Carnegie Brown, Ivor Brown, p. 112 If indeed he had so turned from Latin texts to garden-tools, he would certainly have been forswunk.