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Slank vs Swank - What's the difference?

slank | swank |

As verbs the difference between slank and swank

is that slank is (slink) while swank is to swagger, to show off.

As an adjective swank is

(dated) fashionably elegant.

As a noun swank is

a fashionably elegant person.

slank

English

Verb

(head)
  • (slink)
  • * Frederick William Rolfe, The desire and pursuit of the whole
    • So, when priests slank up to him, he civilly warned them off: if they merited kindness and persisted, he gave them double
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    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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