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▪ I. ˈswanky, swankie, n.1 (a.1) Sc. and north. dial.
[Related to swank a.1, swanking n. and a.]
A smart, active, strapping young fellow.
1508Dunbar Flyting 130 Sueir swappit swanky, swyne⁓keper ay for swaittis. 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 68 Swingeouris and scurrevagis, swankeis and swanis. 1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. vii, The young swankies on the green Took round a merry tirle. c1756J. Elliot Flowers of Forest 9 In Har'st at the shearing, nae swankies are jeering. 1820Scott Monast. xvi, There is a young swankie here who shoots venison well.
b. adj. = swank a.1, swanking a.
1838J. Struthers Poetic Tales 78 Aye try to please My swankie joker. 1898N. Munro John Splendid xix. 188 Airlie's troopers, swanky blaspheming persons.
▪ II. ˈswanky, swankey, n.2 dial.
[Perhaps a use of swanky adj. (see prec.) with the connotation ‘thin, poor’.]
Small beer, or other poor or weak liquor. Also attrib.
1841Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 583. 1863 Tyneside Songs 25 We've Tom-an'-Jerry an' swanky shops, An' places where yor claes they pops. a1872Newfoundland Fisheries 110 (Schele de Vere) Each man..took his turn at the swankey pail. 1893J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 295 The captain certainly had sent them a couple of dozen of porter. But, as one explained.—What's the good of sich rubbishin' swankey? 1908W. M. J. Williams King's Revenue xi. 80 The ‘Swankey shops’, which were houses where beer at 1½d. the quart was sold without a licence.
▪ III. swanky a.1
see swanky n.1
▪ IV. ˈswanky, a.2 slang.
[f. swank n.2 or v. + -y.]
Swaggering; ‘swagger’, pretentiously grand. Also, boastful. Of things: imposing, stylish, ‘posh’.
1842Akerman Wiltshire Gloss., Swankey, swaggering, strutting. 1883in Hampsh. Gloss. 1912World 6 Aug. 243/2 Some girls have such awfully swanky ideas, haven't they? 1929‘R. Crompton’ William i. 9 ‘I read that too,’ interrupted Ginger, ‘so you needn't be so swanky.’ 1940C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Georgics ii. 49 No mansion tall with a swanky gate. 1959Spectator 25 Sept. 406/3 An English producer and a London critic..in the swanky bar of the Excelsior. 1974Sunday Tel. 8 Dec. 8/6 Swanky Christmas presents, beautifully wrapped in red and gold. |