Spank

Definition: Spank

Spank

Noun

1. A slap with the flat of the hand.

Verb

1. Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spank" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Spank

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Velocity

Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.

Crosswords: Spank

Manx (ligature, tourniquet).

Spank me (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore)

You must spank her well, and after you are done with her, you may deal with her as you like and then spank me (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

Spank you, Helpy Helperton (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk)

Crank it, spank it, smack it on the bing-bong (Just Shoot Me!; writing credit: David Renwick)

Spank your inner moppet (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I'll spank ya son, keep him in line (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z)

When you call my name and spank me (Touch It; performing artist: Monifah)

Gonna get some spank n' drive off in a def OJ. Everybody go ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

Shortee I strickly wanna spank you, (Oops (Oh My); performing artist: Tweet)

Ohayo! Spank (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• How Do You Spank a Porcupine? (reference)

• Spank (reference)

• Spank me if you love me (reference)

• To Spank or Not to Spank: A Parents' Handbook (reference)

• Too Big to Spank (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "spank": spank along. Additional references.

Albanian

shpulakë (slap, slap in the face), i heq një pëllëmbë vitheve. (various references)

Arabic 

‏وبخ بقسوة (bawl, vituperate), ‏ضرب على الكفل, ‏صفعة على الكفل, ‏صفع على الكفل, ‏إنطلق بسرعة وبرشاقة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

шляпвам (slap, smack), шляпане (squelch), профучавам (flash, hurl, hurtle, roar by, scour, sweep, sweep by, sweep past, whoosh), потупвам (clap, dab, rap, tip), плясвам (crack, flap, plop, slap, whack), плесване (spat), плесвам (dab, rap, slap), движа се енергично (jump, zip), движа се бързо (clip, double, hasten, jump, scour, scud, shift, speed, spin, travel, whirl, zoom). (various references)

Chinese 

一巴掌 . (various references)

Czech

plácnutí (bump, flap, smack), plácnout dlaní, naplácat na zadek. (various references)

Farsi 

درکونی زدن , باسرعت حرکت کردن , بادست بکفل زدن . (various references)

Finnish

antaa vitsaa (give somebody a beating), antaa selkäsauna, antaa selkään jollekulle (beat, dust a person's jacket). (various references)

French

fesser, donner une tape sur la fesse, donner une fessée, donner une claque sur la fesse, coup de fesse, aller � bonne allure, éreinter. (various references)

German

schlagen (bang, bash, bat, batter about, beat, belt, best, biff, birch, blast, break, Bury, capture, chime, clang, clout, defeat, fell, flap, flog, hack out, hit, kick, kill, knock, knock about, knock around, knock out, lap, lash, mint, outride, Pat, pound, pounding, pummel, punch, punching, rattle, rattling, sing, slap, slash, slat, smack, smite, stricken, strike, swat, take, throb, thump, thwack, to bang, to bash, to batter, to blast, to knock (at), to rap, to slap, trim, wallop, wash, whip, whip up, whisk), verhauen (baste, beat, beat up, clatter, muff, thrash, to spank, to trounce, trounce, whack), klaps (cuff, dab, paddywhack, Pat, slap, smack, smacker). (various references)

Greek 

ραπίζω εισ τα οπίσθια, χτυπώ (beat, beat up, beaten, chime, clank, clap, clink, clip, clobber, hit, hurt, jangle, knock, punish, slosh, smite, strike, strike down, swat, thrash, thump), δέρνω στο πισινό, δέρνω (beat, beat up, beaten, churn, drub, ferule, flog, lambaste, lash, lick, scourge, shellac, trounce, whip, whop). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"רביץ (beat, cause to sit down, disseminate, hit, smack, sprinkle, strike), לסטור בישבן. (various references)

Hungarian

fenékre ütés, elfenekel (to lather, to lay it on sy, to paddle, to skelp, to spank), ütés tenyérre, ütés (bang, bash, beat, blow, bump, bust, clap, clash, clashing, clinker, clout, cut, dent, hit, jab, jolt, kick, knock, knocking, percussion, prod, punch, slap, slosh, snick, strike, striking, stroke, swipe, thump, thwack, to come to bat, whack, wham). (various references)

Italian

sculacciare. (various references)

Korean 

찰싹 때리기. (various references)

Manx

greddey ny curpyn, greddaney ny curpyn, gred ny curpyn. (various references)

Pig Latin

ankspay.(various references)

Portuguese

palmada (clap, slap, spanking), espancar (bat, beat, belabor, belabour, clobber, lambaste, larrup, lathe, lather, lay into, maltreat, maul, paste, pommel, quilt, swinge, thresh, thwack, trounce, wallop, welt, whang, whop), castigar com um chinelo, caminhar a trote largo. (various references)

Romanian

trage o palmã peste, plesni cu palma, palmã (clout, crack, cuff, palm, slap, span), merge repede (lick, speed), mâna (bag, drive, horse, prod, punch), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), chelfãni (thrash), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), avansa repede, alerga (career, chase, collide, course, elapse, flow, fly, go, go the pace, haste, hasten, hurry, race, run, rush, scamper, scour, urge, walk), îndemna (advise, charge, court, egg, exhort, goad, hunch, impel, incite, induce, needle, prick, prod, prompt, punch, push, rouse, set smb. doing smth., spur, stimulate, urge), înainta repede. (various references)

Russian 

шлепок (slap, smack, spat), шлепать шлепок (slap, slapping, swat), шлепать (flap, slapped, sloshes, smack, spanked, swatted). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

udariti dlanom ili pljosnatim predmetom, udarac dlanom ili pljosnatim predmetom, pljuska (thwack). (various references)

Spanish

zurrar en las nalgas, palmada (clap, slap, smack), azote en las nalgas (spanker), azotar en las nalgas. (various references)

Swedish

daska till. (various references)

Turkish

popoya vurulan tokat, kıçına şaplak atmak, şaplak atmak (slap, smack, whang), şaplak (slap, smack, smacker, spanking, spat, whang). (various references)

Ukrainian

хлопати (pop, slam), шльопанець (baff, flop), квапити (hasten, hie, press, rush), відшльопати, ляпанець (slap, smacker). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái phát v� o đít, cái đánh v� o đít. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spank": spanked, spanker, spankers, spanking, spankings, spanks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spank" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Espgan, sanko, scank, sepan, skank, Spaan, spack, spamn, spanak, spanch, spang, spanky, spann, Spano, spazn, sphan, sprank, srank. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: knaps.

-1 letter: knap, naps, pans, sank, snap, span.

-2 letters: ask, asp, kas, nap, pan, pas, sap, ska, spa.

-3 letters: an, as, ka, na, pa.

+1 letter: pekans, planks, pranks, punkas, spanks.

+2 letters: kidnaps, napkins, punkahs, spanked, spanker, unpacks, unspeak.

+3 letters: backspin, capeskin, kampongs, knappers, knapsack, kneecaps, kneepads, kneepans, landskip, newspeak, packings, packness, pancakes, parkings, prankish, ranpikes, skiplane, snapback, snowpack, spankers, spanking, sparking, speaking, stopbank, tankship, unspeaks.

+4 letters: backspins, bankrupts, capeskins, crankpins, handpicks, handspike, kephalins, kidnapees, kidnapers, knapsacks, knapweeds, landskips, miniparks, newspeaks, pachinkos, pannikins, parklands, peaceniks, plankings, plankters, planktons, prankster, prefranks, preshrank, skiplanes, snapbacks, snowpacks, spackling, spankings, sparkling, speakings, spikenard, spinnaker, spokesman, stopbanks, superbank, tankships, unpackers.