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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



... continues by arrangement. Miss IRIS HOEY was really perfectly irresistible—something ought to be done about it. She would have reduced the whole Flying Corps to dereliction of duty. Mr. FRANK BAYLY had just that air of awkward modesty which is so much more effective than plain swank as an advertisement of gallantry, and Miss MURIEL POPE played a programme-girl with all the skill that an artist thinks is worth putting ...
— Punch, 1917.07.04, Vol. 153, Issue No. 1 • Various
... 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, has as yet been discovered. All ...
— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell
... called him. They wore the baggy grey clothes and clumsy looking leather top boots of the German infantryman. The spiked pickelhauben was conspicuous by its absence and was, we well knew, a thing only of billets and of "swank" parades. In its place was the soft pancake trench cap with its small colored button ...
— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson
... cheap: in decency's name. Nobody wants to swank, to sit in the front of a box like a geranium on a window-sill—"the cynosure of many eyes." Nobody wants to profiteer. We all feel that it is as humiliating to pay high prices as to charge them. No ...
— Touch and Go • D. H. Lawrence
... of rabbit-hutch in the outer office, take the callers' names, and especially to see that they don't get through to Mr. Quhayne till he wishes to receive them. That is the most exacting part of my day's work. You wouldn't believe how full of the purest swank some of these pros. are. Tell you they've got an appointment as soon as ...
— The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England - A Tale of the Great Invasion • P. G. Wodehouse


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