Meaning

1 senses
  1. (colloquial, not comparable, usually)An intensifier.

    brand spanking new

    a spanking good time

Examples

27 sentences
  1. Tom doesn't remember his parents ever spanking him.

  2. I don't remember my parents ever spanking me.

  3. I remember my mother spanking me a lot.

  4. Tom said he saw Mary spanking one of her children.

  5. Tom says he doesn't remember his parents ever spanking him.

    deTom sagt, er könne sich nicht erinnern, daß ihn seine Eltern je geschlagen hätten. — Waldelfe

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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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