| swink Sep 25th 2013, 03:45, by Anglom | | | | Line 15: | Line 15: | | | | | | | | ===Etymology 2=== | | ===Etymology 2=== | | − | From {{etyl|enm|en}} {{term|swinken|lang=enm}}, from {{etyl|ang|en}} {{term|swincan||to labour, work at, strive, struggle; be in trouble; languish|lang=ang}}, from {{etyl|gem-pro|en}} {{term/t|gem-pro|*swinkanan||to swing, bend}}, from {{etyl|ine-pro|en}} {{term/t|ine-pro|*sweng-}}, {{term/t|ine-pro|*swenk-||to bend, swing, swivel}}. Cognate with {{etyl|non|-}} {{term|svinka||to work|lang=non}}. Related to {{l|en|swing}}. | + | From {{etyl|enm|en}} {{term|swinken|lang=enm}}, from {{etyl|ang|en}} {{term|swincan||to labour, work at, strive, struggle; be in trouble; languish|lang=ang}}, from {{etyl|gem-pro|en}} {{term/t|gem-pro|*swinkaną||to swing, bend}}, from {{etyl|ine-pro|en}} {{term/t|ine-pro|*sweng-}}, {{term/t|ine-pro|*swenk-||to bend, swing, swivel}}. Cognate with {{etyl|non|-}} {{term|svinka||to work|lang=non}}. Related to {{l|en|swing}}. | | | | | | | | ====Verb==== | | ====Verb==== |
Latest revision as of 03:45, 25 September 2013 English[edit] Pronunciation[edit] Etymology 1[edit] From Middle English swink, from Old English swinc ("toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour"). swink (plural swinks) - (archaic) toil, work, drudgery
- 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr. Enderby:
- Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman's swink, ready for Enderby.
Etymology 2[edit] From Middle English swinken, from Old English swincan ("to labour, work at, strive, struggle; be in trouble; languish"), from Proto-Germanic *swinkaną ("to swing, bend"), from Proto-Indo-European *sweng-, *swenk- ("to bend, swing, swivel"). Cognate with Old Norse svinka ("to work"). Related to swing. swink (third-person singular simple present swinks, present participle swinking, simple past swank, swonk, swinkt, or swinked, past participle swunk, swunken, swonken, swinkt, or swinked) - (archaic, intransitive) to labour, to work hard
- 14th century, William Langland, Piers Plowman
- Heremites on an heep · with hoked staues,
- Wenten to Walsyngham · and here wenches after;
- Grete lobyes and longe · that loth were to swynke,
- Clotheden hem in copis · to be knowen fram othere;
- And shopen hem heremites · here ese to haue.
- Spenser
- for which men swink and sweat incessantly
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.
- (archaic, transitive) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
- Milton
- And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
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