Forswink
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Forswink is a verb meaning (transitive, archaic poetic or obsolete) To exhaust by labour; overwork.
Meaning
(transitive, archaic poetic or obsolete) To exhaust by labour; overwork.
Example Sentences
She is my goddess plain, And I her shepherd's swain, Albe[it] forswonk and forswat I am.
If indeed he had so turned from Latin texts to garden-tools, he would certainly have been forswunk.
And they dried him out and hung him up. My, he swung. Blowing his nose for the lovers; forswunken, forswot.
At which point, Don said: "Sod this. If they don't bloody well want to be arrested for murder, then they can suit themselves. I'm buggered if I'm going to forswink myself."
Word Forms
- forswinks
- forswinking
- forswank
- forswonk
- forswonck
- forswunken
- forswunk
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include swink, fortravel, forwork, toswink, beswink, forswing.
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