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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPANK'ING, ppr.
1. Striking with the open hand
2. a. Large; stout. [Vulgar.]
SPAN'-LONG, a. Of the length of a span.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy] n
1: the act of slapping on the buttocks; "he gave the brat a good spanking"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1666 1. remarkable of its kind 2. being fresh and strong ; brisk II. adverb Date: 1787 very <a spanking clean floor> <spanking new>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1 (esp. of a horse) moving quickly; lively; brisk (at a spanking trot). 2 colloq. striking; excellent. --adv. colloq. very, exceedingly (spanking clean). --n. the act or an instance of slapping, esp. on the buttocks as a punishment for children.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spanking Spank"ing, a. 1. Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing. Four spanking grays ready harnessed. --G. Colman, the Younger. 2. Large; considerable. [Colloq.]

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(spankings) 1. If someone gives a child a spanking, they punish them by hitting them on the bottom several times with their hand. Andrea gave her son a sound spanking. N-COUNT 2. If you describe something as spanking new, spanking clean, or spanking white, you mean that it is very new, very clean, or very white. (INFORMAL) ...a spanking new Mercedes... ADV: ADV adj [emphasis]

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Large.

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