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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



... clumsy. You can't put on a new frock, worse luck, the way I've done, to restore your self-respect. But I do wish you'd buy a new something—a new race-horse or a new car—I don't care what as long as it would make you swank. A little swanking would do you all the good in the world; it would keep Terry from knowing how much you care. Terry's not half good enough for you; one day you'll acknowledge it. Still, if you really do think you want her, you can bring her to heel any moment by putting on an indifferent ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... remember a day when I felt quite tall Because of a gift of five whole shillings; I was Johnson major then, I recall, And didn't I swank and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, February 28, 1917 • Various
... did he utter anything approaching a boast over a feat which his friends and superiors had expected of him. This would be "swank," as they call it, only he would characterize it by even a stronger word. He is the kind of officer, the working, clear-thinking type, who would earn promotion by success at arms in a long war, while the gallery-play crowd whose promotion and ...
— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... know what to think. You see, we don't read newspapers much at school. Some of the masters do. And a few chaps in the Fifth—swank, of course. But speaking generally we don't. Prefects don't. ...
— The Title - A Comedy in Three Acts • Arnold Bennett
... man me," Jones irritably cut in. "In the rotunda out there, Dunwoodie gave me a foretaste of your swank and I can tell you I relished it. You won't look at a penny of this money because, if you did, you would be benefiting by an act committed by your father, who, as sure as you live, was impelled by the powers invisible to rid the earth of Paliser and to rid it of him ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus


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