spank

中文来自 ECDICT

vt.: 打，拍击，飞跑
vi.: 飞跑
n.: 拍打，一巴掌

1词源 1

词源说明

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”).

释义（英文）

动词 Verb

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

名词 Noun

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

词族

派生词（18）

spanky spankable spankee spanker spanking spank the monkey spank you spank you very much unspanked spank it spank out spankavision spankies spanko spankophile spanktastic spankworthy spank bank

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构词拆分

span词根/词干

-k后缀

(rare, no longer productive) A suffix found in verbs of Middle English, Old English, usually with an intensive or frequentative effect.

演变路径（由近及远）

英语
借自 ←荷兰语
借自 ←低地德语

词源说明

Uncertain. Likely of Dutch or Low German origin. Compare North Frisian spanke (“to step with pride”), Saterland Frisian spankje (“to splash”), dialectal Dutch spanken (“to limp, hobble”), Dutch spankeren (“to run away quickly, gallop off”), German Low German spenkern (“to burst, explode, shatter, splash, spray”), Danish spanke (“to strut”), Swedish spånka (“to strut proudly”); originally, equivalent to