spanking

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: spank=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

spanking, a. 

•  Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing.  [1913 Webster]

  "Four spanking grays ready harnessed."  [1913 Webster]
•  Large; considerable.  [1913 Webster]
•  Very; extremely; -- used especially in the phrase spanking new or brand spanking new, meaning completely new and unused.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spanking, adj., adv., & n.
--adj.
1 (esp. of a horse) moving quickly; lively; brisk (at a spanking trot).
2 colloq. striking; excellent.
--adv. colloq. very, exceedingly (spanking clean).
--n. the act or an instance of slapping, esp. on the buttocks as a punishment for children.

THESAURUS

spanking

active, activist, activistic, acute, admonishment, admonition, aggressive, agile, alive, animated, awfully, banging, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, big, blustery, bouncing, bouncy, bracing, brand-new, brand-spanking new, breakneck, breezy, bright, brisk, bubbly, buffeting, bumping, caning, castigation, chastisement, chiding, chipper, clubbing, corporal punishment, correction, cowhiding, crisp, cudgeling, damned, dashing, double-quick, dreadfully, drubbing, dynamic, eagle-winged, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, expeditious, express, extremely, fast, fine, fire-new, flagellation, flailing, fleet, flogging, flying, forceful, forcible, fresh, freshening, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, fustigation, galloping, gleaming, go-go, great, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hearty, horsewhipping, hustling, impetuous, incisive, intense, invigorating, just out, keen, kinetic, lacing, large, lashing, lecture, lesson, light of heel, light-footed, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mettlesome, mightily, militant, newfangle, newfangled, nimble, nimble-footed, objurgation, outstanding, peppy, perky, pert, pistol-whipping, precipitate, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, quicksilver, rapid, rating, rattling, rawhiding, rebuke, reckless, remarkable, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, robust, running, scolding, scourging, sermon, slapping, smacking, smart, snapping, snappy, spanking new, speedy, spirited, sprightly, spry, strapping, strenuous, stripes, strong, swift, swingeing, switching, take-charge, take-over, thrashing, thumping, thundering, trenchant, trouncing, truncheoning, upbraiding, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, walloping, whacking, whaling, whipping, whopping, winged, zestful, zesty, zingy, zippy

ROGET THESAURUS

spanking

Size

N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.