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Spank   /spæŋk/   Listen
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.



noun
Spank  n.  A blow with the open hand; a slap.






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"Spank" Quotes from Famous Books



... on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his little dame, Over the mountain-side or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name. Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink, Snug and safe is this nest of ours, Hidden among the summer ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various

... at him. "No," says he, "I revere him. But when he comes to ringin' in ancient history, he'll find that I'm a wooden horse that can gallop—that I'm only called Agamemnon for fun. That, really, I used to spank our former friend, Achilles, to develop his nervous system. Oh, no!" says Ag, "Troy to me is only a system of measurements, a myth, or the damnedest hole in the U. S. However, we shall be at the Christmas ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips

... and with the tears runnin' down his cheeks begins to talk tall. Now what does that Cockeye do? Why, that pore kid that he had skinned couldn't 'a' hurt him with his pore little bric-a-brac. Does Cock-eye take his little parlour ornament away from him, and spank him, and tell him to go home? No, he never. The kid's little tin pop-shooter explodes right in his hand before he can crook his forefinger twice, and while he's a-wondering what-all has happened Cock-eye gets his two guns on him, slow and deliberate like, mind you, and throws forty-eights into him ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris

... lead horse is a little lame, but he'll last the night through. Lots of lame things will! Who knows? Maybe we'll be cleaning the mud off our boots on the white posts of the frontier to-morrow! A whole brigade mine! I live! You old brick, Lanny! This time we are going to spank the enemy on the part of his anatomy where spanks are conventionally given. ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer

... quite a common thing for Bears to spank their cubs when they need it, and if Grumpy had disciplined Johnny this way, it would have saved them both a deal of worry. Perhaps not a day passed, that summer, without Grumpy getting into trouble on Johnny's account. But of all these numerous occasions the most ignominious ...
— Johnny Bear - And Other Stories From Lives of the Hunted • E. T. Seton


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