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  • noun Plural form of swink.

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Examples

  • It seemed to indicate that this was a case of war, not a summer-camp for exercise, and that the poor labor-swinks were being torn from their planet-saving industries to go and distribute civilization and other forms of suffering among the feeble benighted somewhere; else why should the swinkesses cry?

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • It seemed to indicate that this was a case of war, not a summer-camp for exercise, and that the poor labor-swinks were being torn from their planet-saving industries to go and distribute civilization and other forms of suffering among the feeble benighted somewhere; else why should the swinkesses cry?

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • And it wasn't just the same, anyway, because we were sooflaskies, and they were only swinks.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Many wife-swinks [ "Swinks," an atomic race] and daughter-swinks and sweetheart-swinks were about -- crying, mainly.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • It seemed to indicate that this was a case of war, not a summer-camp for exercise, and that the poor labor-swinks were being torn from their planet-saving industries to go and distribute civilization and other forms of suffering among the feeble benighted somewhere; else why should the swinkesses cry?

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Many wife-swinks [ "Swinks," an atomic race] and daughter-swinks and sweetheart-swinks were about -- crying, mainly.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • And it wasn't just the same, anyway, because we were sooflaskies, and they were only swinks.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • And it wasn’t just the same, anyway, because we were sooflaskies, and they were only swinks.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Many wife-swinks [” Swinks,” an atomic race] and daughter-swinks and sweetheart-swinks were about — crying, mainly.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

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