Lexicographical Neighbors of Swankeys
Literary usage of Swankeys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs by John Bell (1812)
"... Nae swankeys are roaming, 'Mang stacks, wi' the lasses, at bogle to play ;
But ilk ane sits dreary, Lamenting her deary ..."
2. The Bombay Quarterly Review (1857)
"In the same way there are few Dobbins, and a vast number of swankeys. Military men
cannot but acknowledge the estimable and manly qualities of the first, ..."
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