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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPANK, v.t. To strike with the open hand; to slap [A word common in New England.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a slap with the flat of the hand v
1: give a spanking to; subject to a spanking [syn: spank, paddle, larrup]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Etymology: imitative Date: circa 1712 to strike especially on the buttocks with the open hand • spank noun II. intransitive verb Etymology: back-formation from spanking Date: 1788 to move quickly, dashingly, or spiritedly <spanking along in his new car>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 tr. slap esp. on the buttocks with the open hand, a slipper, etc. 2 intr. (of a horse etc.) move briskly, esp. between a trot and a gallop. --n. a slap esp. with the open hand on the buttocks. Etymology: perh. imit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spank Spank, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Spanking.] [Of unknown origin; cf. LG. spakken, spenkern, to run and spring about quickly.] To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spank Spank, n. A blow with the open hand; a slap.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spank Spank, v. i. To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly. --Thackeray.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(spanks, spanking, spanked) If someone spanks a child, they punish them by hitting them on the bottom several times with their hand. When I used to do that when I was a kid, my mom would spank me. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Strike (with the open hand), slap.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

(WHIP) To run neatly along, beteeen a trot and gallop. The tits spanked it to town; the horses went merrily along all the way to town.

Moby Thesaurus

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