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Winker vs Swinker - What's the difference?

winker | swinker |

As nouns the difference between winker and swinker

is that winker is a horse's blinder; a blinker while swinker is a toiler; a labourer.

winker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A horse's blinder; a blinker.
  • somebody who winks

    • swinker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A toiler; a labourer.
  • *1845 , Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, Richard Gough, Epistolarium :
    • 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, [...]
  • *1891 , Harper's magazine - Volume 83 - Page 786:
    • Tosspots and swinkers' were they then; tosspots and ' swinkers are they still.
  • *2010 , Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries :
    • [...] 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)

    Related terms

    * (l) (Webster 1913)