Swank

Definition: Swank

Swank

Adjective

1. Imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment".

Noun

1. Elegance by virtue of being fashionable.

Verb

1. Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously.

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

Date "swank" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Synonyms: Swank

Crosswords: Swank

Swank and the Remedy (1911)

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

References

• Swank International Manufacturing Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Swank, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• A Unifying Influence: Essays of Raynard Coe Swank (reference)

• Hilary Swank Holiday Card with Cards and Envelope (reference)

• Luke Swank (reference)

• No Swank (reference)

• Patriotism, Protection, and Prosperity: James Moore Swank, the American Iron and Steel Association, and the Tariff, 1873-1913 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Swank (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Wings for the bird / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Luke Swank, Pittsburg, Pa..

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

Expression using "swank": swank about smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "swank": swank-words.

Albanian

mburrje (arrogance, bluster, boast, bounce, brag, braggery, bravado, fanfaronade, gasconade, hokum, jactation, jactitation, puff, rodomontade, splurge, talk big, vainglory, vaunt), krekosje (display, inflation, prance, stalk, strut, swagger). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتن بالمظهر, ‏متكبر (arrogant, conceited, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, proud, snooty, supercilious, swelling, upstage), ‏تكبر (arrogance, be arrogant, look big, lordliness, pride, snobbery, snootiness, snooty, superciliousness, vanity), ‏تعاظم (accession, accretion, boom, build up, increase, intension, mount, wax), ‏تأنق (doll up, dude oneself up, elegance, flourish, mannerism, preen, smarten, spruce, spruce oneself, stylishness, titivate, titivation), ‏تبجح (bluster, blustery, boast, boastfulness, brag, bravado, crow, gasconade, jactitation, plume, rant, shoot a line, swagger, swell, talk big, vaporize, vaunt), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏إختال (strut, swagger, swash), ‏داغر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

фукам се (act up, put on side), надуване (air blast, blowing, inflation, peacockery), перчене (bravado, parade, peacockery, swagger), перя се (perk). (various references)

Czech

vytahovat se (flaunt), vytahování, vyhloubat se, vychloubání (boast), chvastoun (Bigmouth, braggart, coxcomb, loudmouth, Roisterer). (various references)

Farsi 

نازوعشوه , قروغمزه امدن , سرحال وچابک , عالی (Beautiful, Brave, Capital, Excellent, Exquisite, Famous, Fine, Gallant, High, Immense, Knockout, Lofty, Much, Palmary, Remarkable, Ripping, Spiffy, Splendid, Super, Superb, Superlative, Supreme, Unrivaled), خودفروشی (Ostentation, Pretension), جست وخیزکن , شیک وباشکوه . (various references)

Finnish

kerskailla (brag, broast, swagger). (various references)

French

esbroufeur, esbroufer, esbroufe, crâner. (various references)

German

protzig (ostentatious, ostentatiously, pretentious, ritzy, showy, snobbish, swanky). (various references)

Greek 

ποζάρω (pose, pose as, sit), επίδειξη (demonstration, demonstration of, display, limelight, ostentation, pageantry, show, show off, showing, sideshow, splurge), αριστοκράτησ (aristocrat, nob, swell), αριστοκρατεία. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת�'� �"ר (spruce oneself, titivate), ל�"תרברב (bluster, boast, brag, give oneself airs, talk big), ל�"שויץ (brag, swagger, talk big). (various references)

Hungarian

henceg (brag, rant, swagger, to boast, to brag, to hector, to put it on, to put on dog, to rant, to shoot a line, to shout the odds, to show off, to side, to swagger, to swell about, to swell it, to talk big, to talk large, to throw the bull, to vainglory, to vapour), felvágás (crack, cutting, frills, rant, show-off, side, snootiness, splurge, strut, swagger). (various references)

Italian

spaccone (boaster, braggart, Roisterer), ostentazione (affectation, display, ostentation, pomp, show). (various references)

Manx

jannoo froaish (swagger), froaish (brag, egotism, panache, swagger). (various references)

Pig Latin

anksway.(various references)

Portuguese

presunção (airs, arrogance, assumption, assurance, conceit, concetto, coxcombry, daring, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, puppyism, self-assurance, self-conceit, self-importance, self-sufficiency, self-support, surmise, swagger, vainglory, vanity), ostentação (array, blazon, boast, bravery, display, flare, flaunt, gewgaw, luxury, ostentation, pageantry, parade, pomp, shew, show, showiness, splender, vaunt), gosto de dar na vista, arrogância (arrogance, arrogation, assumingness, assurance, audacity, bigness, loftiness, morgue, presumption, pride, self-assertion), aparato (display, ostentation, pageant, pageantry, pomp, trappings). (various references)

Romanian

fanfaronadã (bluster, boast, braggadocio, bragging, fanfaronade, hot air, rodomontade, swagger, swaggering), face pe grozavul (be on stilts, feel one's oats, prance, puff, show off, Snoot, talk big, talk through one's hat). (various references)

Russian 

хвастовство (big talk, blague, blowing, boast, brag, braggery, bragging, bravado, gasconade, jactation, jactitation, ostentation, rodomontade, vaunt), форс, бахвальство (braggadocio, fanfaronade, splurge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razmetljiv (braggart, bragging, brassy, jaunty, ostentatious, rodomontade, showy, sporty, thrasonical), elegantan (classy, dressy, elegant, fancy, gracious, smart, snappy). (various references)

Spanish

presumir (assume, conjecture, fancy, presume, show off, suppose, suspect, to assume, to suspect), fachendear, fachendón, fachenda (show off, splurge), darse tono (attitudinize, pose, posture, put it on, put on airs). (various references)

Swedish

snobberi (dandyism, foppery, frippery, snobbery), snobb (coxcomb, Dandy, fop, high hat, jackanapes, macaroni, snob, swell, toff), skryt (blague, boast, brag, cockalorum, fanfaronade, jactation, rodomontade, swagger, vaunt), göra sig viktig (put on the dogs). (various references)

Thai

อว�"โก้, คนอว�"โก้. (various references)

Turkish

hava atmak (crow, cut a dash, flaunt, give oneself airs, make a great display, make a show of, prank, put on airs, put on an act, put on dog, put on side, queen it over, show off, splurge, swagger), hava (aerial, aero-, air, airs, ambiance, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, atmospheric, aura, climate, Flavor, flavour, mood, ostentation, shades, showing off, side, sky, splash, splurge, strain, vanity, weather, wind), gösteriş yapmak (display, flaunt, make a demonstration, make a great display, make a show of, parade, show off, splurge, sport), gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, dash, display, flashiness, flourish, frill, furbelows, gaiety, glitter, glossiness, ostentation, panache, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, put on, shew, show, show off, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, vanity, veneer, veneering), fiyaka (air, airs, blazon, blazonry, gimmickry, show off, showing off, splash, spruceness), şıklık (chic, elegance, fashionness, finery, smartness, spruceness, style, ton, trimness), çalım (air, airs, feint, ostentation, pass, side, strut, strutting, swagger, trick). (various references)

Ukrainian

розкішний (baronial, beautiful, belgravian, bonzer, costly, dressy, exuberant, glittering, large, lordly, luxurious, palatial, ritzy, splendid, sumptuous, upholstered, voluptuous), хвастати (beat to drums, blow, bluster, boast, brag, cut a dash, display, flourish, gab, gasconade, glory, splurge, talk big, talk horse, vapor, vapour, vaunt), хвалькуватий (boastful, chesty, rodomontade, swashing, vainglorious), франтити (gallant), вихваляння (aggrandizement, dithyramb, encomium, gasconade, glorification, incense, magnification), зубрити (bone, grind away, sap, swot). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phô trương (airing, flaunt, ostentation, showiness, show-off, swankiness), sự khoe khoang (flaunt, ostentation, self-display, show-off, swankiness). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "swank": swanked, swanker, swankest, swankier, swankiest, swankily, swankiness, swankinesses, swanking, swanks, swanky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Swank" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kwan, pwank, Qwak, sanko, scank, sewan, skank, srank, swak, swamk, swance, swanch, swanck, swand, swane, swani, swek, swik, swrank. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: awns, sank, sawn, snaw, swan, wans.

-2 letters: ask, awn, kas, naw, saw, ska, wan, was.

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

+1 letter: swanks, swanky, wakens.

+2 letters: awakens, knawels, kwanzas, swanked, swanker, weakens.

+3 letters: hawkings, hawknose, newshawk, newspeak, rewakens, snowbank, snowpack, swankest, swankier, swankily, swanking, swanlike, swanskin, twankies, wakandas, wakeners, walkings, weakness.

+4 letters: askewness, awakeners, backswing, gawkiness, handworks, hawknoses, kinswoman, knapweeds, mackinaws, markdowns, moonwalks, newsbreak, newshawks, newsmaker, newspeaks, reawakens, shakedown, snakeweed, snowbanks, snowflake, snowmaker, snowpacks, squawking, swankiest, swanskins, takedowns, wackiness, wakenings, weakeners, weaklings, wingbacks.