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Swonk vs Swank - What's the difference?

swonk | swank |

As verbs the difference between swonk and swank

is that swonk is (swink) while swank is to swagger, to show off.

As an adjective swank is

(dated) fashionably elegant.

As a noun swank is

a fashionably elegant person.

swonk

English

Verb

(head)
  • (swink)

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    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.
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    * (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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    swank

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (dated) Fashionably elegant.
    • I went to a swank party last night.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fashionably elegant person.
    • He's such a swank .
  • Ostentation.
    • The parvenu was full of swank .
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    • 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)
  • To swagger, to show off.
    • Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.

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