sweenied, a. U.S.
(ˈswiːnɪd)
Also sweeneyed, swinneyed, swyneyed.
[f. sweeny + -ed2.]
Suffering from sweeny. Hence sweenied-looking adj.
| 1861 Harper's Mag. Aug. 421/2 The people have been fed on buncombe, while a lot of spavined, ring-boned,..swyneyed, split-headed..polleviled politicians have had their noses in the public crib. 1872 Rep. Indian Affairs 1871 (U.S.) 554 The three mules were thin, and one of them lame in the right shoulder, ‘sweenied’. 1872 Borderer (Las Cruces, New Mexico) 5 Oct. 2/4 God Almighty only knows the age of 'em!—three footed, one-eyed, sweeneyed, spavined, broken-down ex-livery stable stock, ‘political hacks’, and sway-backed horses. 1960 V. Williams Walk Egypt 188 Mule and tree had grown old and swinneyed together. Ibid. 240 He picked up a mule... It was a swinneyed-looking thing. |