spank

English

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Etymology

Probably imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈspæŋk/
• Rhymes: -æŋk

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Political cartoon from 1860 depicting Columbia spanking Stephen A. Douglas over her knee as a punishment, using a switch.

Verb

spank (third-person singular simple present spanks, present participle spanking, simple past and past participle spanked)

1. (transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture or form of sexual interaction.
2. (transitive) To soundly defeat, to trounce.
3. (intransitive) To move rapidly.

   The ship was really spanking along.

Derived terms

• spankable
• spankee
• spanker
• spanking
• unspanked

Translations

To smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object.

• Dutch: billenkoek geven, voor de billen geven
• Esperanto: pugfrapadi (eo)
• Finnish: antaa selkäsauna (fi) (as punishment)
• French: fesser (fr)
• Hungarian: elfenekel (hu)
• Indonesian: gebuk (id)
• Italian: sculacciare (it)

• Jèrriais: latter
• Latin: culare
• Norwegian: daske (no)
• Sanskrit: तडयति (sa) (tadayati)
• Spanish: nalguear (es)
• Swedish: smiska (sv), daska (sv)

See also

• over the knee

Noun

spank (plural spanks)

1. An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat or slap.
2. A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.

Translations

An instance of spanking; a smack or slap

• Dutch: klap voor de billen
• Finnish: läimäys

• Spanish: nalgada (es)

A slapping sound, as produced by spanking

• Dutch: klap (nl)
• Finnish: läimäys

• Spanish: golpe (es)

Anagrams

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