swink

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /swɪŋk/ Rhymes: -ɪŋk === Etymology 1 === From Middle English swink, from Old English swinc (“toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour”). ==== Noun ==== swink (countable and uncountable, plural swinks) (archaic) Toil, work, drudgery. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English swynken, from Old English swincan (“to labour, work”), from Proto-Germanic *swinkaną (“to swing, bend”). Cognate with Old Norse svinka (“to work”). ==== Verb ==== swink (third-person singular simple present swinks, present participle swinking, simple past swank or swonk or swinkt or swinked, past participle swunk or swunken or swonken or swinkt or swinked) (archaic, intransitive) To labour, to work hard (archaic, transitive) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. ===== Derived terms ===== === References === === Further reading === http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=swink http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=swink === Anagrams === Winks, winks