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Definition swink

Etymology 1

From Middle English swink, from Old English swinc (“toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour”).

Noun

swink (plural swinks)

1. (archaic) toil, work, drudgery

Etymology 2

From Middle English swinken, from Old English swincan (“to labour, work at, strive, struggle; be in trouble; languish”), from Proto-Germanic *swinkan? (“to swing, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweng-, *swenk- (“to bend, swing, swivel”). Cognate with Old Norse svinka (“to work”). Related to swing.

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)

1. (archaic, intransitive) to labour, to work hard
2. (archaic, transitive) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.

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