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Whoop vs Spank - What's the difference?

whoop | spank |

In intransitive terms the difference between whoop and spank

is that whoop is to make a whoop while spank is to move rapidly.

In transitive terms the difference between whoop and spank

is that whoop is to shout, to yell while spank is to soundly defeat, to trounce.

whoop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) whopen, whowpen, howpen, , see (l).

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
  • A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
  • A bump on a racetrack.
  • * 2006 , Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know (page 104)
    • The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad
  • * 2009 , Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages (page 184)
    • The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.
  • A bird, the hoopoe.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a whoop.
  • * (William Wordsworth)
    • each whooping with a merry shout
  • * W. Browne
    • When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.
  • To shout, to yell.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
  • To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
  • (obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * whoop it up

    Etymology 2

    Corruption of whip .

    Alternative forms

    * whup

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To beat, to strike.
  • (informal) To defeat thoroughly.
    • Derived terms
    * whoop someone's ass * open a can of whoop ass

    See also

    * whoopee * whoops English heteronyms English onomatopoeias

    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.

    • Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs