swank : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: swank	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for swank
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swank adj imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment" Synonym(s): swank, swanky n elegance by virtue of being fashionable [syn: chic, chicness, chichi, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank, last word] v display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car" Synonym(s): flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, 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 [bd]Ho.[b8] --Sir Samuel Freguson.