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Swan vs Swank - What's the difference?

swan | swank |

As nouns the difference between swan and swank

is that swan is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach, etc while swank is a fashionably elegant person.

As a proper noun swan

is .

As an adjective swank is

(dated) fashionably elegant.

As a verb swank is

to swagger, to show off.

swan

English

(wikipedia swan)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus , most of which have white plumage.
  • (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
    • Derived terms
    * swanling * swan species: black swan, black-necked swan, mute swan, trumpeter swan, tundra swan, whooper swan * swan boat * swan dive * swanherd * swannery * swansdown * swanskin * swan song
    See also
    * cob (adult male) * cygnet (epicene, young) * lamentation * pen (adult female)

    Verb

    (swann)
  • (British) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
  • * 2010 , Lee Rourke, The Canal , Melville House Publishing (2010), ISBN 9781935554905, unnumbered page:
    • He swans' around that stinking office in his expensive clothes that are a little too tight for comfort, he ' swans around that stinking office without a care in the world.
  • * 2013 , Tilly Bagshawe, One Summer’s Afternoon , HarperCollins (2013), ISBN 9780007472550, unnumbered page:
    • One of the few strokes of good luck Emma had had in recent days was the news that Tatiana Flint-Hamilton, her only real rival for top billing as 'most photographable girl' at today's event had decided to swan off to Sardinia instead, leaving the limelight entirely to Emma.
    Usage notes
    * In the sense "to travel", usually used as part of the phrase "to swan about" or "to swan around".

    Etymology 2

    Probably from dialectal , contraction of "I shall warrant"; later seen as a minced form of (term).

    Verb

    (swann)
  • (US, slang) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
  • * 1907 December, J. D. Archer, Foiling an eavesdropper'', in ''Telephony , volume 14, page 345:
    • "Well, I swan , man, I had a better opinion of you than that."
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, page 214:
    • ‘She slammed the door so hard I figured a window'd break .’ ‘I swan ,’ I said.

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    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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