| 单词 |
swinker |
| 释义 |
swinker arch.|ˈswɪŋkə(r)|
[f. swink v. + -er1.]
One who swinks; a toiler, labourer.
1340Ayenb. 90 Yef he deþ workes bodylyche as doþ þise zuynkeres and þise gememen. c1386Chaucer Prol. 531 With hym ther was a Plowman,..A trewe swynkere and a good was he. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xx. 173 A fayre lye, That serueþ þese swynkeres to seo by a nyghtes. a1450Tourn. Tottenham 14 Theder com al the men of the contray,..And all the swete swynkers. a1529Skelton El. Rummyng 105 She maketh therof port sale..To sweters, to swynkers, And all good ale drynkers. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 17 Thee sulcking swincker. 1623Cockeram, Swynker, labourer [mispr. tabourer]. 1886J. W. Graham Neaera (1887) I. vi. 74 What do these rough swinkers know of these things? 1893K. Grahame Pagan Papers 105 With most of us who are labourers in the vineyard, toilers and swinkers, the morning pipe is smoked in hurry and fear. |
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