name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
swink
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Pronunciation
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/swɪŋk/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɪŋk
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CMU ARPABET: S W IH1 NG K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A town in Otero County, Colorado, United States, named after George W. Swink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Toil, work, drudgery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 4
To labour, to work hard
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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History
Etymology
From Middle English swink, from Old English swinc (“toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour”).
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”).