swink
9.9
Hard physical work that makes you very tired
- noun
- /swɪŋk/
- Archaic
:
trabajo arduo
Examples
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- Elizabeth Swink
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The victory was hard-earned after years of swink in the fields.
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His books often depict the swink of the laborers during the harvest season.
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She admired the resilience required for such swink in the harsh conditions.
Synonyms
hard work
vsswink
439
1.6
A lot of steady effort to achieve something difficult
is an older literary word that stresses toilsome exhausting labour
3
8.1
Simple unpleasant tasks that no one wants to do
is centred on severe exhausting labour rather than small trivial chores
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9.9
Hard physical work often done by hand
is an older literary term that stresses toilsome exhaustion not just physical work
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7.2
A lot of hard, boring work that others avoid but must be done
is about heavy toilsome labour rather than routine monotony or drudgery
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Etymology
Swink comes from an old English word swincan that meant 'toil' or 'hard work', and people used it for long, tiring labor. So swink as a noun means heavy, exhausting work or labor.