From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[spanking]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en]. Possibly [en], or perhaps a special use of Etymology 2 (below) in the
sense of a horse stamping its foot against the ground. There is no evidence
of a relation with [pt].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To beat, smack or slap a person's buttock s, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.
2. [en] To soundly defeat , to trounce .
3. [en] To hit very hard.
4. * 2018 September 15, Barney Ronay, _The Guardian_ , Finely tuned Liverpool are really getting into Jürgen Klopp’s groove (see https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/sep/15/finely-tuned-liverpool-are-really-getting-into-jurgen-klopps-groove) :
5. *: Spurs had a free-kick on the edge of the Liverpool box. Érik Lamela SPANKED it low into the wall, got the ball back, played it out to Christian Eriksen.
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[to smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object.]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chickasaw: [cic]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] [as punishment] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Latin: [la] , [la] clūnēs
- Maori: [mi]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [semelfactive]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack , swat , or slap .
2. * [en]
3. A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
4. [en] An instance of masturbation .
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[an instance of spanking; a smack or slap]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [a smack]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[a slapping sound, as produced by spanking]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
[en]. Likely of [en] or [en] origin. Compare [frr], [stq], dialectal [nl],
[nl], [nds-de], [da], [sv]; originally, equivalent to [en]. Compare also
dialectal [en].
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To move quickly and nimbly on foot ; to stride or run at a brisk pace.
2. [en] To move or turn rapidly , as the gears of a machine or the sails of a ship.
3. [en] To shoot out or throw violently; to hurl or knock out .
***** Derived terms
- [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A leap or bound .
***** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]