spank

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

spank, v. t. [Of unknown origin; cf. LG. spakken, spenkern, to run and spring about quickly.].

 To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.  [1913 Webster]

spank, n. 

 A blow with the open hand; a slap.  [1913 Webster]

spank, v. i. 

 To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.  Thackeray.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spank, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. slap esp. on the buttocks with the open hand, a slipper, etc.
2 intr. (of a horse etc.) move briskly, esp. between a trot and a gallop.
--n. a slap esp. with the open hand on the buttocks.

Etymology

perh. imit.

THESAURUS

spank

admonish, bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, blip, box, bring to book, buffet, bust, call to account, cane, castigate, chastise, chide, clout, club, correct, cowhide, cudgel, cuff, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, have words with, horsewhip, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on, lecture, maul, objurgate, paddle, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, punch, punish, rap, rate, rawhide, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, scourge, set down, set straight, slap, sledgehammer, smack, smite, sock, straighten out, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, take down, take to task, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, upbraid, wallop, whack, whale, whip, whop

ROGET THESAURUS

spank

Punishment

VB punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice, cowhide, lambaste, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite, slap, slap the face, smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet, thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather, pelt, stone, lapidate, masthead, keelhaul, execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot, decimate, burn, break on the wheel, crucify, empale, impale, flay, lynch, electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber, torture, put on, put to the rack, picket, banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize, rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar, disbench, strike off the roll, unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged, come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad.

Velocity

VB move quickly, trip, fisk, speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle, scud, scuddle, scour, scour the plain, scamper, run like mad, beat it, fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush, cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel, scorch, burn up the track, rush, dash on, dash off, dash forward, bolt, trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom, march in quick time, march in double time, ride hard, get over the ground, hurry, accelerate, put on, quicken, quicken one's pace, mend one's pace, clap spurs to one's horse, make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way, put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score, carry sail, crowd sail, go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground, outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind, keep up with, keep pace with, outstrip, outmarch.