swink
/swɪŋk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A town in Otero County, Colorado, United States, named after George W. Swink.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman’s swink, ready for Enderby."
- "Honour, estate, and all this worldes good, / For which men swinck 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."
- "There was no internal graphite coating; instead a metal shield was used to collect the beam current the swinked electrons which in their prime had caused the screen to fluoresce."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: swink, swinc, swynken, swincan, *swinkaną