spank
verb/spæŋk/
/spæŋk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they spank | /spæŋk/ /spæŋk/ |
| he / she / it spanks | /spæŋks/ /spæŋks/ |
| past simple spanked | /spæŋkt/ /spæŋkt/ |
| past participle spanked | /spæŋkt/ /spæŋkt/ |
| -ing form spanking | /ˈspæŋkɪŋ/ /ˈspæŋkɪŋ/ |
- spank somebody/something to hit somebody, especially a child, several times on their bottom as a punishment
- I used to get beaten and spanked a lot when I was a kid.
- She says she’s never spanked her children.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySpank is used with these nouns as the object:- bottom
Word Originearly 18th cent.: perhaps imitative.
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