different between swinker vs slinker

English

Etymology

From Middle English swinkere, equivalent to swink +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Noun

swinker (plural swinkers)

1. (archaic or dialectal) A toiler; a labourer.

1. • c. 1387, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:

     With him ther was a plowman, was his brother, / That hadde ylad of donge ful many a fother. / A trewe swinkere and a good was he, / Livinge in pees and a parfit charitee. […]

   • 1845, Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, Richard Gough, Epistolarium:

     Ye are twin swinkers in this nether field / One to prolong, the other to expand, / My landmark and my clock; but both must yield, / To the destroying angel's flaming wand, […]

   • 1891, Harper's magazine - Volume 83 - Page 786:

     Tosspots and swinkers were they then; tosspots and swinkers are they still.

   • 2010, Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries:

     […] whether they were quizzed by "those idle gallants who haunt taverns, gay and handsome," or hobnobbed with "travellers and tinkers, sweaters and swinkers," the alehouse was assuredly no place for nuns.

Related terms

• swinkard
• swink

Anagrams

• Kerwins, winkers

English

Etymology

slink +? -er

Noun

slinker (plural slinkers)

1. One who slinks.
   • P. G. Wodehouse

     He paws! He's a slinker and a prowler and a leerer. He's a pest and a worm!

Anagrams

• Kerlins, Kinsler, Linkers, Sinkler, linkers, relinks

Swedish

Verb

slinker

1. present tense of slinka.