Meaning

1 senses

  1. To swagger, to show off.

    Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.

More definitions
  • display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

Origin

From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old E

From 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

swanks, swanking, swanked, swanked
Base formswank · to swank
3rd person singularswanks
Present participleswanking
Past simpleswanked
Past participleswanked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyswank
he, she, itswanks

Past simpleLesson

all personsswanked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave swanked
he, she, ithas swanked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill swank

Synonyms

31 synonyms
galleryA2flexostentatestrutaura farmboulevardiercut a wide swathcut it fatcut roundexhibitionizefigure awayflamboastflauntfloss
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Relatedswankilyswankinessswanky

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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