Skinked vs Swinked - What's the difference?
skinked | swinked |
(skink)
A lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.
(obsolete) drink
(obsolete) pottage
(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 skinked and swinked
is that skinked is past tense of skink while swinked is past tense of swink.skinked
English
Verb
(head)skink
English
(wikipedia skink)Etymology 1
From (etyl) scinc, from (etyl) scincus, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) scencan or (etyl) skenkja.Noun
- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* Cullen skink (Webster 1913)Anagrams
*swinked
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.