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Swanked vs Spanked - What's the difference?

swanked | spanked |

As verbs the difference between swanked and spanked

is that swanked is past tense of swank while spanked is past tense of spank.

swanked

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 .
  • *
  • 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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    spanked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spank)

  • 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.