spank

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.
2. (transitive) To soundly defeat, to trounce.
3. (transitive) To hit very hard.

Noun

1. An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap.
2. A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
3. (euphemistic, slang) An instance of masturbation.

Noun

A leap or bound.

Concepts

fesser

gifle

fessée

claquer

frapper

donner une fessée

talocher

pagaie

battre

taper

donner une tape

donner une fessée à

Synonymes

slap

smack

whip

beat

paddle

hit

spanking

scourge

slapdash

thrash

slapping

blow

slug

beat up

larrup

strike

lash

lick

pat

punch

👊

cuff

give a smack

torture

trellis

trounce

vanquish

wallop

whack

whang

whop

bowl along

riding whip

beanpole

strike violently

cane

chastise

churn

clash

clip

club

drub

ferule

flog

jounce

knock down

lambaste

penalize

punish

shellac

slam

Traductions

palmada

Klaps

golpear

bofetada

sculacciare

pegar

ceffone

sîle

zele

tep

صفعة

verhauen

ραπίζω

şeq

dövmek

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/spæŋk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à frison septentrional: spanke

Appartenant à saterlandais: spankje

Appartenant à néerlandais: spanken

Appartenant à néerlandais: spankeren

Appartenant à danois: spanke

Appartenant à suédois: spånka

In summary

Uncertain. Possibly imitative, 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 Portuguese espancar (“to batter, strike”).