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单词 swinked
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swinkedadj.

Brit. /swɪŋkt/, U.S. /swɪŋkt/
Forms: 1600s–1800s swink't, 1700s– swinkt, 1800s swenkt, 1800s–1900s swinked.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: swink v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < swink v. + -ed suffix1. N.E.D. (1919) also gives the pronunciation (swi·ŋkėd) /ˈswɪŋkɪd/.
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.
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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).
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