swink

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Toil, work, drudgery. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman’s swink, ready for Enderby.
动词 v.
  1. To labour, to work hard archaic,intransitive
    — Honour, estate, and all this worldes good, / For which men swinck and sweat incessantly
  2. To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. archaic,transitive
    — And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
    Comus

词形变化

swinks plural 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

词汇关系

衍生词
beswink forswink swinker toswink

词源

词源 1
From Middle English swink, from Old English swinc (“toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour”).
词源 2
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”).
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