spank

English

Etymology

Probably imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spæŋk/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -æŋk

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. (transitive) To hit very hard.
   • 2018 September 15, Barney Ronay, The Guardian, Finely tuned Liverpool are really getting into Jürgen Klopp’s groove:

     Spurs had a free-kick on the edge of the Liverpool box. Érik Lamela spanked it low into the wall, got the ball back, played it out to Christian Eriksen.

4. (intransitive) To move rapidly.

   The ship was really spanking along.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• spankable
• spankee
• spanker

• spanking
• unspanked

Translations

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

• Armenian: ծեծել (hy) (cecel)
• Bulgarian: плясвам (pljasvam), шляпвам (bg) (šljapvam)
• Catalan: natjar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏆᎸᏂᎭ (aqualvniha)
• Chickasaw: passá̠a
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打屁股 (zh) (dǎpìgǔ)

• Dutch: billenkoek geven (nl), voor de billen geven
• Esperanto: pugfrapadi
• Finnish: antaa selkäsauna (as punishment), läimäyttää (fi), piiskata (fi)
• French: fesser (fr)
• Galician: azoutar
• German: auf das Gesäß schlagen, den Hintern versohlen
• Hindi: थप्पड़ मारना (thappaṛ mārnā)
• Hungarian: elfenekel (hu)
• Ido: glutee batar
• Indonesian: gebuk (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: sculacciare (it)
• Japanese: 尻を叩く (しりをたたく, shiri o tataku)
• Kapampangan: barog
• Latin: culare
• Maori: papaki
• Norman: latter
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rise (no), daske, gi ris

• Portuguese: surrar (pt)
• Russian: шлёпать (ru) impf (šljópatʹ), отшлёпать (ru) pf (otšljópatʹ), шлёпнуть (ru) pf (šljópnutʹ) (semelfactive)
• Sanskrit: तडयति (taḍayati)
• Spanish: nalguear (es), zurrar (es)
• Swedish: smiska (sv), daska
• Tagalog: palo (tl), yabat
• Thai: ตี (th) (dtii)

Related terms

• spankee
• spanker
• unspanked

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

• Bulgarian: плясване n (pljasvane), шляпване n (šljapvane)
• Catalan: natjada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴掌 (zh) (bāzhang) (a smack)

• Dutch: klap voor de billen
• Finnish: läimäys (fi)
• Galician: cuada (gl) f, azouta f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Klaps (de) m
• Polish: klaps (pl) m
• Portuguese: surra (pt) f
• Russian: шлёпание n (šljópanije), шлепо́к (ru) m (šlepók) (a smack)
• Spanish: nalgada

a slapping sound, as produced by spanking

• Dutch: klap (nl)
• Esperanto: paf
• Finnish: läimäys (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: pan (fr)
• Russian: шлепо́к (ru) m (šlepók)
• Spanish: golpe (es)

Anagrams

• knaps, Panks, panks