different between forswonk vs forswunk

English

From for- +? swonk, past participle of swink (“to labour”).

forswonk (comparative more forswonk, superlative most forswonk)

From Middle English forswunken, past participle of forswinken (“to overwork”), equivalent to for- +? swunk. More at forswink.

forswunk (not comparable)

(obsolete) totally worn out from work
- 1943, "Just Another Word: Comprising A Word in Your Ear & Just Another Word", Ivor John Carnegie Brown, Ivor Brown, p. 112
  If indeed he had so turned from Latin texts to garden-tools, he would certainly have been forswunk.

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