spanking
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb form
spanking
- Present participle of spank.
[edit] Noun
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spanking (plural spankings)
- A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks.
- Domestic spanking is often endured over the knee (or lap), formal spanking rather applied over a contraption such as a tresle or A-frame, with or without constraints
- An incident of such punishment, or such physical act in a non-punitive context, such as a birthday spanking.
- During bare-butt spankings one clearly sees the bottom-skin turn red or even purplish
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[edit] Translations
A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks
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An incident of such an act, also in a non-punitive context
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[edit] Adjective
spanking (not comparable)
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Superlative |
- (literally) Relating to spanking(s); e.g. inclined to punishment by spanking
- The notoriously spanking headmaster ordered fresh birches every term
- (colloquial, now usually with “new”) An intensifier.
- brand spanking new
- a spanking good time
- Fast and energetic.
- a spanking pace
- (often nautical) Brisk and fresh.
- a spanking breeze
- remarkable of its kind.
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[edit] References
- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (via the dictionary.com entry).
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

