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Spank   /spæŋk/   Listen
Spank

verb
(past & past part. spanked; pres. part. spanking)
1.
Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking.  Synonyms: larrup, paddle.
noun
1.
A slap with the flat of the hand.



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"Spank" Quotes from Famous Books



... been voyaging for over an hour, and of which she was now heartily tired. To be sure, the bear was not much bigger than her own Teddy Bear at home, which she was wont to carry around by one leg, or to spank without ceremony whenever she thought it needed discipline. But the glossy black of the stranger was quite unlike the wild and grubby whiteness of her Teddy, and his shrewd little twinkling eyes ...
— Children of the Wild • Charles G. D. Roberts

... pillow where I could put my hand on it, day or night! YOU scare Mum! MUM will scare YOU, if there's any more of that let's-play-Injun business going on around this ranch. Why, I'd lead you down there by the ear, every mother's son of you, and tell that man Stanley to SPANK you!" ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower

... square. Some were merely nailed upon the ends of the broom handle; but this method was insecure. The others were made with holes in the centre of the boards of the same diameter as the handles. These sticks were used to tamp the soil or spank it down. But on the day when an old farmer, stopping to watch the work, offered his roller, there was great rejoicing. Between classes, during recesses and at any odd time the slope was rolled. One boy in the very beginning pushed the roller but not ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw

... them, of course, and I believe in bringing them up in accordance with modern, enlightened ideas. First of all, I want their love and affection—the pleasure of having them run to me and throw their arms about me, when I come into the room. If I scold them and spank them and keep interfering with their natural instincts, I might end up by making them afraid of me—as they are of their father. I don't want that. I much prefer to pet them and spoil them and find ...
— Heart and Soul • Victor Mapes (AKA Maveric Post)

... felt a good wholesome desire to spank her, but he said, most politely: "You're awful tired. Don't you want to stay here tonight? Or maybe some other hotel; ...
— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis


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