Swonk vs Swone - What's the difference?

swonk | swone |

As a verb swonk

is (swink).

As a noun swone is

swonk

English

Verb

(head)

(swink)

Anagrams

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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.

Derived terms

* (l)

References

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