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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Spank" Quotes from Famous Books



... could put my hand on it, day or night! YOU scare Mum! MUM will scare YOU, if there's any more of that let's-play-Injun business going on around this ranch. Why, I'd lead you down there by the ear, every mother's son of you, and tell that man Stanley to SPANK you!" ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower

... his tail a pleased little shake and flew away, leaving Helen to spank the other pillow and to wonder what she could do to "help ...
— The Goody-Naughty Book • Sarah Cory Rippey

... the noise, And she thought it was the boys A-playing at a combat in the attic; But when she climbed the stair, And found Jemima there, She took and she did spank ...
— Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories - The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 • Various

... 'Anthropoid, somewhat like a human being in form or other characteristics'! Something like—— You wait till I get you in the tank again! 'Something like a human being'! For two cents I'd lay you on the bed and spank you ...
— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour

... Carol, "but you tell Prue she needn't expect me to hold it until it gets too big to wiggle. I call them nasty, treacherous little things. Mrs. Miller made me hold hers, and it squirmed right off my knee. I wanted to spank it." ...
— Prudence Says So • Ethel Hueston

... everything out if David were only here," she said. "I would take you both across my knee and give you a good sound spanking. It used to work beautifully when you were children,—and I think it would work now. I—I wonder if it would help matters any if I were to spank—No, I'm sure it wouldn't. To do any good at all David would have to be here to see me spanking you and to beg me to let you off and give it to ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon

... be spanked by their parents if by anyone; and that a teacher who cannot induce good behavior in children of that age, without spanking, has mistaken her vocation. However, it is against their principles for kindergartner's to spank, slap, flog, shake or otherwise wrestle with their youthful charges, no matter how much they seem to need these instantaneous and sometimes very effectual methods of ...
— The Girl and the Kingdom - Learning to Teach • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... Baltimorean,—one of the quiet sort, who strike first; and do the talking, if there is any, afterwards. No words, but, in the place thereof, a clean, straight, hard hit, which took effect with a spank like the explosion of a percussion-cap, knocking the slayer of beeves down a sand-bank,—followed, alas! by the too impetuous youth, so that both rolled down together, and the conflict terminated in one of those inglorious and inevitable Yankee clinches, ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)



Words linked to "Spank" :   paddle, slap, smack, smacking, spanker, beat, spanking



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