Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To slap on the buttocks with a flat object or with the open hand, as for punishment.
- intransitive verb To move briskly or spiritedly.
- noun A slap on the buttocks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sounding blow with the open hand or something flat, especially upon the buttocks.
- To move with a quick springing step between a trot and a gallop; move quickly and with spirit. See
spanking . - To strike with the open hand, or with something flat and hard; slap with force on the buttocks.
- To urge by slapping or striking; impel forcibly; drive; produce some specified effect upon by spanking or slapping.
- To pound, beat, or slap the water in sailing, as a boat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
- intransitive verb To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.
- noun A blow with the open hand; a slap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb 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. - verb transitive To soundly
defeat , totrounce . - verb intransitive To
move rapidly . - noun An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a
smack ,swat orslap . - noun A
slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
- noun a slap with the flat of the hand
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I find that when you are a good behavior manager in general, the need to spank is minimal.
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He is just as bad and stuck in the authoritarian rut because he doesn't get more creative in his methodology than to advocate (strongly as in blah-blah-blah, the Bible commands you spank, which is not true,) draconian parenting.
adventures in mercy 2009
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(I don't like to say "spank" - it's hitting, beating.
Women's Space 2008
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And they "spank" with nightsticks, tasers and guns.
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It will be necessary to "spank" the Palin/Beck/Limbaugh/Drudge forces back into the submission of reason.
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Peyton Manning will then 'spank' Drew Brees: Now if they just made half-and-half jerseys...
Sad Week Molly Daniels 2010
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It will be necessary to "spank" the Palin/Beck/Limbaugh/Drudge forces back into the submission of reason.
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But there's a deeply ingrained part of my mind and my libido that inevitably gets turned on when I hear the word "spank," that starts to conjure erotic images and stories.
Boing Boing 2008
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Let's REMOVE the word "spank" from our vocabulary.
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Use our Spineless Citations to "spank" the political wimps who aided them by voting for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment.
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