swank
swank · swanks
A fashionably elegant personA fashionably elegant person.
US/ˈsweɪ̯ŋk/
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)A fashionably elegant person.
(countable, uncountable)Ostentation; bravado.
More definitions
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
Origin
From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old EFrom dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”).
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Forms
plural: swanksSynonyms
7 synonymsClose in meaning
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable:chicchicnesschichimodishnesssmartnessstylishnesslast word
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedswanky
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable