Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

swinker

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: swinker
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A toiler; a labourer.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"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, […]"
"Tosspots and swinkers were they then; tosspots and swinkers are they still."
"[…] 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."

Etymology

From Middle English swinkere, equivalent to swink + -er.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: swinkere
Suffix: swink#Verb

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

swinkers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

swinkard swink

Rhymes With

thinker tinker drinker sinker linker pinker stinker clinker blinker inker winker jinker

Questions

What does swinker mean?: A toiler; a labourer.
Where does swinker come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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