verb · transitive · rare

spank

spank · spanks · spanked · spanking

чпокнути, ляснути, чмокнути

шлёпать, отшлёпать, шлёпнуть

auf das Gesäß schlagen, den Hintern versohlen

To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as…To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.

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US/ˈspeɪ̯ŋk/

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Meaning

6 senses

(transitive)To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.
auf das Gesäß schlagen, den Hintern versohlen
шлёпатьšljópatʹ, отшлёпатьotšljópatʹ, шлёпнутьšljópnutʹ
(transitive)To soundly defeat, to trounce.
(transitive)To hit very hard.
(intransitive)To move quickly and nimbly on foot; to stride or run at a brisk pace.
(intransitive)To move or turn rapidly, as the gears of a machine or the sails of a ship.
The ship was really spanking along.
(ambitransitive)To shoot out or throw violently; to hurl or knock out.

More definitions

give a spanking to; subject to a spanking

Examples

70 sentences

Is it OK to spank kids?
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Tom spanked his son for misbehaving.
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Tom started crying when his father spanked him.
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Tom said his parents have never spanked him.
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Tom doesn't remember his parents ever spanking him.
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Translations

7 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

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

Deutsch

By meaning 1

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

Origin

Uncertain. Possibly imitative, or perhaps a special use of Etymology 2 (below) in the sens

Uncertain. Possibly imitative, or perhaps a special use of Etymology 2 (below) in the sense of a horse stamping its foot against the ground. There is no evidence of a relation with Portuguese espancar (“to batter, strike”).

Uncertain. Likely of Dutch or Low German origin. Compare North Frisian spanke (“to step with pride”), Saterland Frisian spankje (“to splash”), dialectal Dutch spanken (“to limp, hobble”), Dutch spankeren (“to run away quickly, gallop off”), German Low German spenkern (“to burst, explode, shatter, splash, spray”), Danish spanke (“to strut”), Swedish spånka (“to strut proudly”); originally, equivalent to span + -k. Compare also dialectal English spang (“to leap, bound; shoot out, fling”).

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