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spankable | spank | Derived terms |

Spankable is a derived term of spank.


As a adjective spankable

is suitable for spanking.

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.

As a noun spank is

an instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap.

spankable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Suitable for spanking.
  • * 1900 , Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel?
  • 'If he says he won't come, he won't,' she said, as though he were one of the elemental forces of nature instead of a spankable brat...
  • * 1996 , James C Bulman, Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance?
  • ...the level on which she can be pert, sly, and spankable , and fill out a small personality.
  • * 2000 , Neal Stephenson, The diamond age
  • Judge Fang knew that Dr. X controlled legions of criminals ranging from spankable delinquents up to international crime lords...

    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.