单词 | swinked |
释义 | swinkedadj. literary and archaic. Now rare. Wearied with toil; overworked. Cf. swink v. 2b, swunk adj.In quot. 1637 probably already an archaism; in later use usually as an echo of this quot. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > esp. through labour forswunka1250 forwroughtc1400 forlaboured1483 broken1490 forespent1563 fortoiled1567 toiled1574 overtoiled?1577 over-laboured1579 back-broken1603 moiled1618 swinked1637 overwrought1648 overtaxed1650 toil-worn1752 used up1823 overworked1830 beat1832 dead-beaten1854 1637 J. Milton Comus 11 What time the labour'd Oxe In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swink't hedger at his Supper sate. 1788 J. Hurdis Village Curate (1797) 77 The swinkt mower sleeps. 1828 T. Aird in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 711/2 The swink't labourers of the sweltering day. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. vi. 238 The swenkt grinders in this Treadmill of an Earth have ground out another Day. 1881 E. Arnold Indian Poetry 127 The sacristan, Leading his swinkèd ringers down the stairs. 1934 ‘S. Miles’ Blind Men crossing Bridge ii. i. 295 The noon was a gold noon: its warmth so drenched and hazily rich,..that birds, insects, and beasts, no less than swinkt humans seemed drowsed and dim. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1637 |
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