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Skinked vs Swinked - What's the difference?

skinked | swinked |

As verbs the difference between skinked and swinked

is that skinked is past tense of skink while swinked is past tense of swink.

skinked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (skink)

  • skink

    English

    (wikipedia skink)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) scinc, from (etyl) scincus, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) scencan or (etyl) skenkja.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) to serve (a drink)
  • * Shirley
  • Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) drink
  • (obsolete) pottage
  • (Francis Bacon)
    Derived terms
    * Cullen skink (Webster 1913)

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    swinked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (swink)

  • swink

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) swink, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) toil, work, drudgery
  • * 1963 , , Inside Mr. Enderby :
  • 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

  • (archaic) to labour, to work hard
  • * 14th century ,
  • 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.
  • * Spenser
  • for which men swink and sweat incessantly
  • * 1922 , :
  • 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.
  • (archaic) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
  • * Milton
  • And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    References

    * http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=swink * http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=swink

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