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Swanked vs Twanked - What's the difference?

swanked | twanked |

As verbs the difference between swanked and twanked

is that swanked is past tense of swank while twanked is past tense of twank.

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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    twanked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (twank)

    • twank

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To cause to make a sharp twanging sound.
  • * Joseph Addison
    • London has the privilege of disturbing a whole street for an hour together, with the twanking of a brass kettle or frying-pan.
    (Webster 1913)