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present participle and gerund of spank examples
not comparable
Fast and energetic. quotations examples
I'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.
1914 June, James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards
On both the Gothland and the Öland Railway, a spanking railcar provides an alternative to riding in the wayward, steam-driven mixed train, but the latter is the proper conveyance for a real railway lover, even over the flat, limestone plains which form much of the Baltic island scenery.
1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Baltic Island Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 51
(often nautical) Brisk and fresh. examples
(colloquial, now usually with “new”) An intensifier. examples
countable and uncountable, plural spankings
(uncountable) A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks. examples
(countable) An incident of such punishment, or such physical act in a non-punitive context, such as a birthday spanking. quotations examples
Some people think spankings of any sort constitute child abuse.
2001, John Rosemond, John Rosemond's New Parent Power!