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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 swank /ˈswæŋk/
 (vi.)出風頭,炫耀出風頭,炫耀,虛張聲勢,優雅

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Swink v. i. [imp. Swank Swonk p. p. Swonken p. pr. & vb. n. Swinking.]  To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic]
    Or swink with his hands and labor.   --Chaucer.
    For which men swink and sweat incessantly.   --Spenser.
    The swinking crowd at every stroke pant =\“Ho.”\=   --Sir Samuel Freguson.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 swank
      adj : imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment"
            [syn: swanky]
      n : elegance by virtue of being fashionable [syn: chic, chicness,
           modishness, smartness, stylishness, last word]
      v : display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he
          showed off his new sports car" [syn: flaunt, flash, show
          off, ostentate]