Stinketh vs Swinketh - What's the difference?
stinketh | swinketh |
(stink)
To have a strong bad smell.
(informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth.
To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
A strong bad smell.
(informal) A complaint or objection.
chemistry (as a subject taught in school)
(slang, New Zealand) A failure or unfortunate event.
(archaic) (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 stinketh and swinketh
is that stinketh is (stink) while swinketh is (archaic) (swink).stinketh
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*stink
English
Verb
- That movie stinks . I didn't even stay for the end.
- Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
Synonyms
* (have a strong bad smell) pong, reek * (be greatly inferior) suck, blow * (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth) be fishyDerived terms
* stink up * stink outNoun
(en noun)- If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
- The concert was stink .
Synonyms
* (strong bad smell) fetor, odour/odor, pong, reek, smell, stench * *Derived terms
* kick up a stink * stink badger * stinkbomb * stinker * stink eye * stink machine * stinkyAnagrams
* English irregular verbs ----swinketh
English
Verb
(head)swink
English
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.