Etymology

toswink

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Today it means: To toil excessively; work or labour hard. Full definition →

Middle English toswinken
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromtoswinken
  2. English todaytoswink

From Middle English toswinken, equivalent to to- + swink.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.