Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swank"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Swink \Swink\, v. i. [imp. {Swank}, {Swonk}; p. p. {Swonken}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Swinking}.] [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See
{Swing}.]
To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic]

Or swink with his hands and labor. --Chaucer.

For which men swink and sweat incessantly. --Spenser.

The swinking crowd at every stroke pant ``Ho.'' --Sir
Samuel
Freguson.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

swank
adj : imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment"
[syn: {swanky}]
n : elegance by virtue of being fashionable [syn: {chic}, {chicness},
{modishness}, {smartness}, {stylishness}, {last word}]
v : display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously [syn: {flaunt},
{flash}, {show off}]

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