swink

The rural afternoon, especially, when he smoked and grubbed and divagated as he pleased, was alone enough to make the five-and-twenty years of "swink" worth while.

The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885

Hmmm..wel, iffen ai cuvver wun eye an kinda swink wif teh uvver eye….nope ur owtfit iz stil uglee.

Canz you pleez be more quiet? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

Full fair was the morrow morn, and Birdalone arose betimes before the sun was up, and she thought she would make of this a holiday before the swink afield began again, since the witch was grown good toward her.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

And if thou mayst not, then may we find somewhat to swink at for a wage, and so maintain thee and us.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Described as the swink vote, perhaps occasionally as a fence sitter -- but I certainly don't hear that very often -- and also as a moderate, would you agree with the assessment?

CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2005 2005

Therefore swink and sweat all that thou canst and mayst for to get thee

The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908

Then said I to myself, "Now is my opportunity," and taking a knife I had with me, that would cut bones before flesh, went down to them and found them motionless, not a muscle of them moving for their much swink.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

And if thou mayst not, then may we find somewhat to swink at for a wage, and so maintain thee and us.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865

We poor wives must swink for our masters, while they sit in their arm-chairs growing as great in the girth through laziness as that ill-mannered fat man William hath writ of in his books of players 'stuff.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

We poor wives must swink for our masters, while they sit in their arm-chairs growing as great in the girth through laziness as that ill-mannered fat man William hath writ of in his books of players 'stuff.

The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851