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English

Etymology

Probably imitative.

Pronunciation


Verb

  1. To smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment or as a form of sexual interaction.
  2. To soundly defeat, to trounce.
  3. To move rapidly.
  4. : The ship was really spanking along.


Derived terms


Translations

Noun

  1. A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
  2. An instance of spanking; a smack or slap.


Translations

Category:English transitive verbs

fr:spank io:spank ku:spank hu:spank ru:spank ta:spank vi:spank

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spank \Spank\ (sp[a^][ng]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spanked
(sp[a^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Spanking.] [Of unknown
origin; cf. LG. spakken, spenkern, to run and spring about
quickly.]
To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spank \Spank\, n.
A blow with the open hand; a slap.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spank \Spank\, v. i.
To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop;
to move quickly. --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet spank
n : a slap with the flat of the hand
v : give a spanking to; subject to a spanking [syn: paddle, larrup]
Moby Dictionary
admonish , bang , baste , bastinado , batter , beat , belabor , belt ,
birch , blip , box , bring to book , buffet , bust , call to account ,
cane , castigate , chastise , chide , clout , club , correct , cowhide ,
cudgel , cuff , cut , drub , flagellate , flail , flap , flog , fustigate ,
give a whipping , give the stick , hammer , have words with ,
horsewhip , knock , knout , lace , lambaste , larrup , lash , lay on ,
lecture , maul , objurgate , paddle , paste , patter , pelt , pistol-whip ,
pommel , pound , pulverize , pummel , punch , punish , rap , rate ,
rawhide , rebuke , reprehend , reprimand , reprove , scold , scourge ,
set down , set straight , slap , sledgehammer , smack , smite , sock ,
straighten out , strap , stripe , swinge , switch , take down ,
take to task , thrash , thresh , thump , trounce , truncheon , upbraid ,
wallop , whack , whale , whip , whop


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