3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spanking \Spank"ing\, a.
1. Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing
dashing.
Four spanking grays ready harnessed. --G. Colman,
the Younger.
2. Large considerable. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spank \Spank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spanked}; p. pr & vb n.
{Spanking}.] [Of unknown origin; cf LG spakken spenkern
to run and spring about quickly.]
To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
spanking
adj : 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" [syn: {brisk}, {lively},
{merry}, {rattling}, {snappy}, {zippy}]
n : the act of slapping on the buttocks; "he gave the brat a
good spanking"
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