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Swank   /swæŋk/   Listen
verb
Swink  v. t.  
1.
To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. (Obs.) "And the swinked hedger at his supper sat."
2.
To acquire by labor. (Obs.) "To devour all that others swink."


Swink  v. i.  (past swank, swonk; past part. swonken; pres. part. swinking)  To labor; to toil; to salve. (Obs. or Archaic) "Or swink with his hands and labor." "For which men swink and sweat incessantly." "The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho.""





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"Swank" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Look, promise like a good girl not to make us conspicuous and I'll take you to the Swank ...
— Status Quo • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... Jeans, op. cit. (footnote 5), p. 108. The process is not mentioned by James M. Swank, History of the manufacture of iron in all ages, Philadelphia, American Iron ...
— The Beginnings of Cheap Steel • Philip W. Bishop
... I think you'll recall my telling you I stand in well with the Police Department in the old home town. Maybe you thought that was swank. Likely you did. But it wasn't. I've got a couple of friends of mine from Headquarters waiting downstairs this very minute, ready and willing to cop out the honour of putting the Lone Wolf under arrest for ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... classify it, since, upon no question appertaining to the psychic, can one dogmatize. To quote from a clever poem that appeared in the January number of the Occult Review, to pretend one knows anything definite about the immaterial world is all "swank". At the most we—Parsons, Priests, Theosophists, Christian Scientists, Psychical Research Professors,—at the most can only speculate. Nothing—nothing whatsoever, beyond the bare fact that there are phenomena, unaccountable by physical laws, ...
— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell
... little bit of theayter—which his irreverent daughter was wont to describe with characteristic brutality as sheer swank—was quickly over. ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant
... gentility. No work-girl ever has one on her head even on Sundays. I offered a cast-off of mine to the bonne at a hotel once, and she eyed it longingly, but said she daren't wear it if she took it, her friends would think it such swank." ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil


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