The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swankie
Swankie \Swank"ie\, Swanky \Swank"y\, n. [Cf. G. schwank
flexible, pliant.]
An active and clever young fellow. [Scot.]
--Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
swankie
n. (context Scotland English) An active and clever young fellow.
Usage examples of "swankie".
Once and for all, I'll have no college swankies (you see, I am well voiced in love's arsenal and all its overtures from collion boys to colleen bawns so I have every reason to know that rogues' gallery of nightbirds and bitchfanciers, lucky duffs and light lindsays, haughty hamiltons and gay gordons, dosed, doctored and otherwise, messing around skirts and what their fickling intentions look like, you make up your mind to that) trespassing on your danger zone in the dancer years.