Slinked vs Swinked - What's the difference?
slinked | swinked |
(slink)
To sneak about furtively.
* Milton
* Landor
* '>citation
To give birth to an animal prematurely.
The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
(swink)
(archaic) toil, work, drudgery
* 1963 , , Inside Mr. Enderby :
(archaic) to labour, to work hard
* 14th century ,
* Spenser
* 1922 , :
(archaic) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between slinked and swinked
is that slinked is past tense of slink while swinked is past tense of swink.slinked
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *slink
English
Verb
- Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
- There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
- a cow that slinks her calf
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----swinked
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Verb
(head)swink
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) swink, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman’s swink , ready for Enderby.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) swinken, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
- Heremites on an heep · with hoked staues,
- Wenten to Walsyngham · and here wenches after;
- Grete lobyes and longe · that loth were to swynke,
- Clotheden hem in copis · to be knowen fram othere;
- And shopen hem heremites · here ese to haue.
- for which men swink and sweat incessantly
- And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.
- And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.