"swink" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /swɪŋk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swink.wav [Southern-England] Forms: swinks [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪŋk Etymology: From Middle English swink, from Old English swinc (“toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|swink}} Middle English swink, {{inh|en|ang|swinc||toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour}} Old English swinc (“toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} swink (countable and uncountable, plural swinks)
  1. (archaic) toil, work, drudgery Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Work
    Sense id: en-swink-en-noun-S2jQ9mrb Disambiguation of Work: 57 23 20 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 11 30 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 57 11 32
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [English]

IPA: /swɪŋk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swink.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ɪŋk Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|swynken}} Middle English swynken, {{inh|en|ang|swincan|t=to labour, work}} Old English swincan (“to labour, work”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*swinkaną||to swing, bend}} Proto-Germanic *swinkaną (“to swing, bend”), {{cog|non|svinka||to work}} Old Norse svinka (“to work”) Head templates: {{en-verb|swinks|swinking|swank|swunk|past2=swonk|past3=swinkt|past4=swinked|past_ptc2=swunken|past_ptc3=swonken|past_ptc4=swinkt|past_ptc5=swinked}} 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) Forms: swinks [present, singular, third-person], swinking [participle, present], swank [past], swonk [past], swinkt [past], swinked [past], swunk [participle, past], swunken [participle, past], swonken [participle, past], swinkt [participle, past], swinked [participle, past]
  1. (archaic, intransitive) To labour, to work hard Tags: archaic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-swink-en-verb-4KBVWT2h
  2. (archaic, transitive) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-swink-en-verb-sTvz20fT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: beswink, forswink, swinker
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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