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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.""





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Swank" Quotes from Famous Books



... the more entrancing. Naturally the less money the more aristocracy, for it meant that the family had never descended to marrying coal miners and brewers—which comment is my own, for Cuthbert was quite destitute of swank. ...
— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon
... with characteristic swank," cried Moon, shooting out a long lean finger, as rigid and arresting as the pistol of Smith, "that you didn't keep ...
— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton
... troops. They will only be eating their heads off here, with summer coming up and the desert getting as dry as a bone. The Lancashire men especially are eye-openers. How on earth have they managed to pick up the swank and devil-may-care airs of crack regulars? They are Regulars, only they are bigger, more effective specimens than Manchester mills or East Lancashire mines can spare us for the Regular Service in peace time. Anyway, no soldier need wish to see a finer lot. On them has descended ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton


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