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Spank vs Speech - What's the difference?

spank | speech |

As nouns the difference between spank and speech

is that spank is an instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap while speech is spoke (part of a wheel).

As a verb 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.

spank

English

(spanking)

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.
  • The ship was really spanking along.

    Derived terms

    * spankable * spankee * spanker * spanking * unspanked

    See also

    * over the knee

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap.
  • A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
  • speech

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia speech)
  • (label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
  • * , chapter=12
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech . In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • *
  • (label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
  • * (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
  • *
  • A style of speaking.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
  • A dialect or language.
  • * Bible, (w) iii. 6
  • people of a strange speech
  • Talk; mention; rumour.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.

    Derived terms

    * after-dinner speech * byspeech * figure of speech * pressure of speech * pressured speech * speech recognition * speechwriter

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