swank
Betekenis (English)
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Fashionably elegant, posh.
Concepten
Synonyms
ostentate
ostentatious smartness
swelled head
pose as
nose-in-the-air
conceit
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/swæŋk/
Etymologie (English)
In summary
From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”).
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