Swanker vs Swinker - What's the difference?
swanker | swinker |
(swank)
(dated) Fashionably elegant.
A fashionably elegant person.
Ostentation.
*
To swagger, to show off.
A toiler; a labourer.
*1845 , Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, Richard Gough, Epistolarium :
*1891 , Harper's magazine - Volume 83 - Page 786:
*2010 , Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries :
As an adjective swanker
is (swank).As a noun swinker is
a toiler; a labourer.swanker
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*swank
English
Adjective
(er)- I went to a swank party last night.
Noun
(en noun)- He's such a swank .
- The parvenu was full of swank .
- Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body--he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.
Verb
(en verb)- Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.
Anagrams
* *swinker
English
Noun
(en noun)- Ye are twin swinkers in this nether field One to prolong, the other to expand, My landmark and my clock; but both must yield, To the destroying angel's flaming wand, [...]
- Tosspots and swinkers' were they then; tosspots and ' swinkers are they still.
- [...] whether they were quizzed by "those idle gallants who haunt taverns, gay and handsome," or hobnobbed with "travellers and tinkers, sweaters and swinkers ," the alehouse was assuredly no place for nuns.
- (Chaucer)