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verb

Spank v. t. (past & past part. spanked; pres. part. spanking) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.

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

adjective

spanking adj.

Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing. "Four spanking grays ready harnessed."

Large; considerable. (Colloq.)

Very; extremely; used especially in the phrase spanking new or brand spanking new, meaning completely new and unused. (informal)

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Etymology of 'Spanking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spanking" Quotes from Famous Books

... employed in splicing yard, repairing mast, and re-rigging. At 8.30 A.M. we got away with a spanking breeze. The diahbiah horridly leaky. The "tree," or rendezvous for all boats when leaving for the White Nile voyage, consists of three large mimosas about four miles from the point of junction. The Nile at this spot about two miles wide—dead flat banks—mimosas on west bank. ...

— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker

... sure she had the thing figured out, and she fetched first one and then the other a cuff that sent them rolling ten feet away. When they got up bawling she was right there and gave them the darndest spanking two innocent cubs ever got. Every time she hit one he would go heels over head and yell blue murder, and by the time he got up she gave him another belt, scolding like an old woman all the time. It seemed to me I could almost hear her say, 'Play tricks on your mammy, will ...

— Bears I Have Met--and Others • Allen Kelly

... repeated this now, and the other replied that an American ought to be the last person in the world to make such a statement, for his country had provided the best illustration in history of the importance of a good job of spanking. It was force that had settled the slavery question—and settled it so that now you might travel in the South and have a hard time to find a man that would want ...

— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair

... the track, a rigid, lumbering mass; and the garrulous inhabitant discussed the value of the carcase, and the driver cracked his whip, and the living horses stirred their haunches, and in a moment we were spanking along, leaving our fellow-creature to darkness and solitude. Only the flash-light from France glimmered upon the poor dead beast, coming all the way to cheer him; only the green eye from beyond the Goodwins blinked ...

— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

... the time she was ashamed of herself. She knew that she was small and mean and narrow and deserved a spanking if any girl did. She wanted to cuff Racey, cuff him till his ears turned red and his head rang. For that is the way a woman feels when she loves a man and he has hurt her feelings. But she feels almost precisely the same way when she hates ...

— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White

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