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Shanks vs Swanks - What's the difference?

shanks | swanks |

As verbs the difference between shanks and swanks

is that shanks is third-person singular of shank while swanks is third-person singular of swank.

As a noun shanks

is plural of lang=en.

shanks

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (shank)
  • swanks

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (swank)

  • swank

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (dated) Fashionably elegant.
  • I went to a swank party last night.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fashionably elegant person.
  • He's such a swank .
  • Ostentation.
  • The parvenu was full of swank .
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  • Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body--he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To swagger, to show off.
  • Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.

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