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Swink

//swɪŋk// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname. countable, uncountable
2
A town in Otero County, Colorado, United States, named after George W. Swink. countable, uncountable

Noun

1
Toil, work, drudgery. archaic, countable, uncountable
"Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman’s swink, ready for Enderby."

Verb

1
To labour, to work hard archaic, intransitive
"Honour, estate, and all this worldes good, / For which men swinck and sweat incessantly"
2
To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. archaic, transitive
"And the swinked hedger at his supper sat."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

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”).

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