Swink (plural Swinks)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Swink is the 8690th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3779 individuals. Swink is most common among White (90.05%) individuals.
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swink (countable and uncountable, plural swinks)
(archaic) toil, work, drudgery
swink (third-person singular simple present swinks, present participle swinking, simple past swonk or swinkt or swinked or swank, past participle swunken or swonken or swinkt or swinked or swunk)
(archaic, intransitive) to labour, to work hard
(archaic, transitive) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
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Source: Wiktionary
Swink, v. i. [imp. Swank, Swonk (; p. p. Swonken; p. pr. & vb. n. Swinking.] Etym: [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See Swing.]
Definition: To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." Sir Samuel Freguson.
Swink, v. t.
1. To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. [Obs.] And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. Milton.
2. To acquire by labor. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. To devour all that others swink. Chaucer.
Swink, n. Etym: [As. swinc, geswinc.]
Definition: Labor; toil; drudgery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 May 2025
(adjective) not developed, improved, exploited or used; “vast unexploited (or undeveloped) natural resources”; “taxes on undeveloped lots are low”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
