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語源 1

Compare German schwank (“flexible, pliant”).

名詞

swankie (plural swankies)

1. (Scotland) An active and clever young fellow.
   • 1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:

     There is a young swankie here who shoots venison well.

参照

• “swankie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源 2

名詞

swankie (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Poor thin beer or any sloppy drink, even sweetened water and vinegar.