Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Past participle of forswink.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Overlabored; exhausted; worn out.

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  • adjective obsolete exhausted; worn out

Etymologies

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for- +‎ swonk, past participle of swink to labour.

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  • Overlabored; exhausted; worn out.

    May 11, 2008

  • Sounds like a collapse.

    May 11, 2008