Geswinc-ful

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - geswinc-ful

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-full;

geswinc-ful
adj. Full of labour, laborious, troublesome, wearisome; lăbōriōsus, incommŏdus :-- Hit biþ swíðe geswincful it is very laborious, Past. 60; Swt. 453, 10; Hat. MS: Lchdm. iii. 188, 19: 192, 2, 23. Ðis wæs geswincfull this was troublesome, Chr, 1097; Erl. 234, 24. Sint hí ðé geswincfulran they are more troublesome to thee, Bt. 14, 1; Fox 42, 22, MS. Cot. geswinc-ful
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