swank
swank · swanker · swankest
Fashionably elegant, poshFashionably elegant, posh.
US/ˈsweɪ̯ŋk/
Meaning
1 sensesFashionably elegant, posh.
imposingly fashionable and elegant
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
swanker, swankestSynonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- imposingly fashionable and elegant:swanky
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
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