swack
/swæk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Matthew advanced to the foot of the stairs and whistled. The signal had been expected, for presently he was joined by a swack youth of about eighteen years, who carried a couple of long salmon-spears."
- "A swack, healthy lass, with plump bust, arms, and legs (the last then evident), laughing lips, eyes over which the dark hair strayed—a guileless face, full of light and love."
- "it came the turn of a brave young childe with a red head and the swackest legs you ever saw, […] and as soon as he began the drill you saw he'd carry off the prize."
- "He made a run for shelter, and he was a swack enough lad them days for all his weight of years."
- "He was a swack billy-boy, with the same high color as the landlord, and the same tight spaniel curls."
- "She gave me a swack of books."
Etymology
From Middle English swac (“weak”), possibly borrowed via Scots swack, ultimately from Old English *swæc (found in derivative swæcehēow (“weakmindedness, nonsense”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swak (“weak”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian swäk, West Frisian swak, Dutch zwak, German Low German swack, German schwach, Norwegian Bokmål svak.
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Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
swacker (comparative)
swackest (superlative)
swacks (plural)
swacks (present, singular)
swacking (participle, present)
swacked (participle, past)
swacked (past)
more swack (comparative)
most swack (superlative)