Spank

English

Verb

Spank (third-person singular simple present Spanks, present participle Spanking, simple past and past participle Spanked)

1. (transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture or form of sexual interaction.
2. (transitive) To soundly defeat, to trounce.
3. (intransitive) To move rapidly.

Noun

Spank (plural Spanks)

1. An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat or slap.
2. A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.

Adverbs for Spank

resoundingly; heartlessly; cruelly; repeatedly; viciously; explosively.

Thesaurus

admonish, bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, blip, box, bring to book, buffet, bust, call to account, cane, castigate, chastise, chide, clout, club, correct, cowhide, cudgel, cuff, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, have words with, horsewhip, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on, lecture, maul, objurgate, paddle, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, punch, punish, rap, rate, rawhide, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, scourge, set down, set straight, slap, sledgehammer, smack, smite, sock, straighten out, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, take down, take to task, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, upbraid, wallop, whack, whale, whip, whop

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈspæŋk/

• Audio (UK)

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