Meaning

9 senses

  1. Someone who spanks.

  2. An instrument used to give someone a spanking or spank, such as a paddle.

  3. A fore-and-aft gaff-rigged sail on the aft-most mast of a square-rigged vessel.

    бизаньbizanʹ

    a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel

  4. (dated)A musician who plays his instrument well.

  5. (dated)One who takes long, quick strides in walking.

  6. (dated)A swift horse.

  7. (dated, slang)Something very large, or larger than usual; a whopper.

  8. (dated, slang)Something splendid; a fine example of its kind.

  9. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)A small coin.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Spanker? I don't even know her!

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
fore-and-aft gaff-rigged sail:

Origin

From spank + -er.

From spank + -er.

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Forms

plural: spankers
Singularspanker
Pluralspankers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
gaff-rigged sail:bloopertallboy
Close in meaning
  • a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand:slapper

Word family

4 related words
Relatedspank
Derivedantispankerplank spankerspankermast

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
SpanishA2spankspankingspanner

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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