Spanking

Definition: Spanking

Spanking

Adjective

1. Quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze".

Noun

1. The act of slapping on the buttocks; "he gave the brat a good spanking".

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

Date "spanking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Spanking

Size

Lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy; (swollen).

Velocity

Spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift rate; Adjective: rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace, lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, strapping pace; round pace; flying, flight.

Crosswords: Spanking

Yes! Yes, you must give us all a good spanking! (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

He was embezzling, skimming off the top, robbing you blind, spanking the monkey (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I could be giving you a spanking and accidentally snap your spinal cord (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

Diane, that last report was so good, you deserve a spanking. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Boo! Don't you scare me like that again, or I'm gonna give you a nasty spanking! (Bringing Down the House; writing credit: Jason Filardi)

Spanking the Princess (1955)

The Spanking Age (1928)

Spanking Breezes (1926)

Brand Spanking New Show (2000)

The Elegant Spanking (1995)

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

Books

• Art of Spanking (reference)

• Flirting With Disaster & Spanking the Monkey (reference)

• Lots of Love & A Spanking!: A Common Sense Discipline Plan for Children from Birth to Age Twelve That Works (reference)

• Spanking Watson: A Novel (reference)

• Why Spanking Doesn't Work: Stopping This Bad Habit and Getting the Upper Hand on Effective Discipline (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Playboy TV: Sex Under Hot Lights - Brand Spanking New (reference)

• Spanking Love (reference)

• Spanking the Monkey (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Christmas Spanking (reference)

• Electric Spanking War Babies [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Spanking Machine (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Miltary officer spanking man with quill under letter D. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kaiser Wilhelm spanking Prussian (crown prince) with his slipper. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Children

Sweden

Parents, teachers, and other adults are subject to prosecution if they physically punish a child, including slapping or spanking. (references)

Greece

There is no societal pattern of abuse of children; however, research by the Institute for Child Health (ICH) revealed a high percentage of socially accepted physical punishment (viz., spanking) by parents. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "spanking": spanking breeze. Additional references.

Beginning with "spanking": spanking-clean.

Ending with "spanking": bottom-spanking, plank-spanking.

Containing "spanking": brand-spanking-new.

Albanian

i shpejtë (agile, arrowy, brisk, dashing, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, fleet-footed, fleeting, flying, hasty, imminent, mercurial, prompt, quick, rapid, smart, speedy, swift, volant, wanton, winged, wing-footed), i mrekullueshëm (divine, dreamy, elegant, excellent, fabulous, goluptious, goodly, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, nailing, nifty, peachy, prodigious, rare, ravishing, remarkable, slapping, striking, superior, transcendent, unusual, wonderful, wondrous), i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, husky, lusty, marrowy, mighty, orotund, potent, potential, powerful, racy, red blooded, robust, sound, stalwart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, violent), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏ضربة على الردف (smacking), ‏رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, splendid, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful), отличен (alpha plus, banner, crack, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, immense, master stroke, masterly, mean, nailing, peachy, pre eminent, prime, prize, roaring, slick, splendid, superb, unexceptionable, whizbang, wicked, wizard), натупване, наплескване, енергичен (active, arduous, brisk, demon, driving, energetic, enterprising, firm, go-go, hearty, keen, live, nervous, pithy, pushing, red blooded, robust, sharp, smart, snappy, spicy, spirited, spunky, strong-minded, up and coming, vigorous, vital, youthful, zappy, zippy), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), поразителен (amazing, astounding, electric, overwhelming, snorting, striking, super). (various references)

Chinese 

拍击. (various references)

Czech

svižný (deft, nimble, rattling, spry, swinging), rychlý (expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, high speed, nippy, quick, rapid, ready, speedy, sweeping, swift, wing-footed). (various references)

Finnish

upouusi (brand new, spanking new). (various references)

French

fort, fessée, épatant (splendid). (various references)

German

schnell (apace, expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, hurry, prompt, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rapids, slippy, smart, smartly, soon, speedily, speedy, swift, swiftly), scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, savage, scathing, scathingly, severe, sexy, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent), verhaünd (banging, trashing, trouncing, whacking), tracht prügel (beating, drubbing, flogging, hiding, thrashing, whacking), mächtig (heavy, heroic, heroically, jolly, massive, mightily, mighty, potent, powerful, puissant, puissantly, strong, terrific, terrifically, thick, tremendous, tremendously), haue (hiding, hoe). (various references)

Greek 

έξοχος (brilliant, gorgeous, magnificent), ράπισμα εισ τα οπίσθια, ράπισμα (biff, box, box on the ears, buffet, smack, spat), ξύλισμα (walloping), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), ταχύσ (cursory, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, flying, precipitate, presto, prompt, quick, rapid, speedy, swift). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"יר (fast, fleet, nimble, nippy, quick, rapid, snap, speedy, summary, swift), מצוין (capital, distinguished, eminent, excellent, fine, outstanding, ripping, shining, splendid, sterling, superb, surpassing, swell), זריז (adroit, agile, alert, dexterous, mercurial, nimble, quick, swift), �"רבצ�" (bashing, licking, lying down, sprinkling). (various references)

Hungarian

gyors (agile, current sale, expedite, expeditious, expenditious, expidite, express, facile, fast, fleet, flighty, hasty, high speed, hit and run, laxity, nimble, nimble-footed, nippy, presto, prompt, quick, quick as thought, rapid, rash, ready, snap, speedy, sudden, swift, tantivy). (various references)

Italian

sculacciata. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

折檻 (chastisement, correcting, scolding severely), 平手�"ち (slap). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひらてうち (slap), せっか�" (admonition, chastisement, correcting, expostulation, regents and advisers, sarcophagus, scolding severely, stone coffin). (various references)

Korean 

때림 (Clubbing). (various references)

Manx

greddey (broil; spanking, broiling, devil, grill, grilling, heat, parch, roast, toast, toasting). (various references)

Pig Latin

ankingspay.(various references)

Portuguese

sapatada (slap), vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), palmada (clap, slap, spank), formidável (clinking, formidable, redoubtable, redoubted, ripping, scrumptious, slashing, sledge-hammer, smashing, snorting, stupendous, super, terrific, tremendous), desembaraçado (clear, clinking, disengaged, free, free and easy, resourceful, sprightly, unashamed, unencumbered, untrammelled), de primeira ordem (clinking, crack, first-class, first-rate, slashing, tiptop), colossal (bloodcurdling, clinking, colossal, frabjous, gigantic, monster, monstrous, stunning, titanic, whacking, whopping), chinelada nas nádegas, apressado (abrupt, clinking, cursory, hasty, hurried, hurry, quick, sudden, superficial), ótimo (boss, champion, clinking, clipping, famous, fine, first-class, first-rate, glorious, gorgeous, great, nailer, nailing, optimum, plummy, rattling, ripping, scrumptious, slapping, splendiferous, superb, superior, tiptop, top-hole, topping). (various references)

Romanian

tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, potent, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), rapid (cursory, express, fast, quick, rakish, rapid, speedy, swift, transient), pui de bãtaie (good drubbing), iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm), chelfãnealã (dressing, dusting, licking, pasting, thrashings, whipping). (various references)

Russian 

шлепать шлепание (swatting), быстрый (agile, expedite, expeditious, fast, fast-moving, fleet, flying, hasty, light, lively, nimble, prompt, quick, rapid, rath, rathe, sharpish, slippy, smart, snappy, speedy, straightaway, swift, tantivy, winged, wing-footed), быстроходный (high speed, rakish), превосходный (admirable, bang-up, beautiful, capital, clinking, divine, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, hunky-dory, jim-dandy, nailing, once-stellar, palmary, posh, prime, smashing, superb, superlative, surpassing, tiptop, top-hole, topnotch, top-notch, transcendent, unexceptionable, unexceptional). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sjajan (beaming, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossal, glossy, gorgeous, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, shiny, splendent, splendid, splendiferous), jak (beefy, bruiser, great, grunting ox, humming, intense, lusty, powerful, racy, red blooded, sinewy, stiff, strong, tenacious, yak), izvanredan (extraordinary, masterly, nifty, outstanding, raving, remarkable, super, superb, terrific, whacking), brz (cursory, expeditious, fast, fleet, high speed, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, repartee, speedy, swift, tantivy, tripping), šopanje. (various references)

Spanish

tunda (belting, licking), rápido (agile, darting, express, express train, fast, fast train, fasting, fleeting, heel bar, live, lively, nippy, prompt, quick, quick fire, quick-firing, rapid, rapids, rathe, rattling, riffle, shoot, short, slapping, slashing, slick, snappy, speedy, swift, swift-flowing, twinkling), manotazo (blow with the hand), grande (ample, appreciable, arch, big, bull, colossal, commodious, gigantic, grandee, great, hefty, high, large, lively, lusty, sizable, sizeable, sore, tall, unqualified, walloping, wide, widespread, yeoman), fuerte (able, bad, big, bold, bouncing, brawny, burly, cast iron, cogent, ebullient, fierce, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, full-blooded, grievous, hard, Hardy, heady, hearty, heavy, hefty, high, intense, long, loud, lurid, lusty, manly, metier, mighty, potent, powerful, raw, ripe, robust, rugged, severe, sharp, sharply, solid, stiff, stoutly, strident, strong, sturdy, telling, throbbing, tough, vigorous), azotaina (flogging, leathering, whipping). (various references)

Swedish

dask (flap, slap, smack). (various references)

Turkish

sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), popoya tokat, pek (eminently, ever so, jolly, much, quite, rattling, so, very, very much), oldukça (a bit of a, a good many, a whale of, fairly, good, pretty, quite, rather, reasonably, somewhat, substantially, well, well enough, whopping), muazzam (colossal, egregious, enormous, fab, grandiose, great, howling, huge, immense, magnific, magnifical, mighty, puissant, stupendous, tremendous, whacking), hızlı koşan (swift of foot, swiftfooted), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), şaplak (slap, smack, smacker, spank, spat, whang), çok büyük (a whale of, fab, fantastic, fantastical, howling, hyper-, sovereign, stratospheric, thumping, tremendous, vast, very big, voluminous, whopping), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Ukrainian

сильний (acute, athletic, bad, bitter, bull, cordial, deep, driving, nervous, nervy, penetrating, potent, powerful, punchy, quick, sharp, smart, strong, swingeing, vehement, vigorous), швидкий (agile, arrowy, dapper, double quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleeting, hasty, nippy, precipitate, present, prompt, quick, rapid, snappy, speedy, summary, swift, whipping, zippy), могутній (forcible, mighty, multipotent, powerful, prepotent, sinewed, strong), прочухан (rowing, ruction, scolding, snorter, wig, wigging). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phát v� o đít, sự đánh v� o đít, chiến (bang-up, bonzer, elegant, famous, famously, hunky-dory, magnificent, slap-up, smashing, solid, super), cừ (bully, classy, elegant, famously, magnificent, posh, pretty, solid, spile), đáng chú ý to. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spanking": spankings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spanking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pankanj, sankin, Sankong, spaking, spamning. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: napkins, pinangs, snaking.

-2 letters: asking, gaskin, inspan, kiangs, napkin, pinang, pinnas, saning.

-3 letters: aping, gains, ginks, kains, kiang, kinas, kings, knaps, nipas, paiks, pains, pangs, pians, pikas, pinas, pings, pinks, pinna, spang, spank.

-4 letters: agin, ains, akin, anis, gain, gaps, gasp, gink, gins, gips, inks, inns, kain, kina, king, kins, kips, knap, nags, nans.

+1 letter: plankings, spankings.

+2 letters: unspeaking.

+3 letters: nonspeaking, painstaking.

+4 letters: kneecappings, painstakings, pawnbrokings, printmakings.

+5 letters: painstakingly.