Swinker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Swinker is a noun meaning (archaic or dialectal) A toiler; a labourer.
Meaning
(archaic or dialectal) A toiler; a labourer.
Example Sentences
Tosspots and swinkers were they then; tosspots and swinkers are they still.
Ye are twin swinkers in this nether field / One to prolong, the other to expand, / My landmark and my clock; but both must yield, / To the destroying angel's flaming wand, […]
[…] whether they were quizzed by "those idle gallants who haunt taverns, gay and handsome," or hobnobbed with "travellers and tinkers, sweaters and swinkers," the alehouse was assuredly no place for nuns.
Word Forms
- swinkers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include winker, swisher, swopper, swiller, skinker, twigger.
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