Spank vs Plunge - What's the difference?
spank | plunge |
To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture, or form of sexual interaction.
To soundly defeat, to trounce.
To move rapidly.
An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap.
A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
the act of plunging or submerging
a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
(figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
(slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
(obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
(label) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
To baptize by immersion.
(label) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self.
To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
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(label) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
* (Joseph Hall) (1574-1656)
To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
To overwhelm, overpower.
As verbs the difference between spank and plunge
is that spank is to beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture, or form of sexual interaction while plunge is (label) to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.As nouns the difference between spank and plunge
is that spank is an instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap while plunge is the act of plunging or submerging.spank
English
(spanking)Verb
(en verb)- The ship was really spanking along.
Derived terms
* spankable * spankee * spanker * spanking * unspankedSee also
* over the kneeNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* English transitive verbsplunge
English
Noun
(en noun)- to take the water with a plunge
- plunge in the sea
Verb
(plung)- some wild colt, which flings and plunges
- Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.
