forswink
verbEtymology
From Middle English forswinken, equivalent to for- + swink.
- inherited from forswinken
Definitions
To exhaust by labour
To exhaust by labour; overwork.
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for forswink. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA