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verb

Spank v. t. (past & past part. spanked; pres. part. spanking) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.

Spank v. i. To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.

adjective

spanking adj.

Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing. "Four spanking grays ready harnessed."

Large; considerable. (Colloq.)

Very; extremely; used especially in the phrase spanking new or brand spanking new, meaning completely new and unused. (informal)

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Etymology of 'Spanking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spanking" Quotes from Famous Books

... had such a spanking breeze from the north-west all the way with her, right abaft the beam, that she accomplished the distance between the head of the inlet and Betsy Cove before nightfall, Mr Meldrum shaping her course so well by the old chart ...

— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson

... more than a baby monkey, but he was so full of mischief that he often made his mother very sad. Jocko's father used to get angry with him; sometimes he used to give Jocko a good spanking; only he hadn't a slipper as the father of little boys have! Jocko's father and mother used to try to teach him that it was very bad manners to snatch any thing from the visitors who came up to the cage. That was a very hard ...

— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various

... careering along Kensington Gore in his curricle; Lord MACAULAY sauntering homeward to Campden Hill, and Lord GEORGE SANGER driving home to East Finchley behind two spanking elephants. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 • Various

... their quarters, conferring in subdued voices. Plume, with his unhappy young adjutant, was seated on the veranda, striving to frame his message to Wren, when the crack of a whip, the crunching of hoofs and wheels, sounded at the north end of the row, and down at swift trot came a spanking, four-mule team and Concord wagon. It meant but one thing, the arrival of the general's staff ...

— An Apache Princess - A Tale of the Indian Frontier • Charles King

... nuts; clowns on stilts stalked in chequered blue; bare-legged boys and girls turned amazing Catherine wheels. There was the hill to finish with by the course, and the plaudits of the crowd for him who took his team up in spanking style. They still drive four-in-hand coaches up the hill; but the motor-horn ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

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