spankingadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈspæŋ.kɪŋ/us/ˈspæŋ.kɪŋ/UK informal approvingvery quick:
They raced by at a spanking pace.
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Fast and rapid
- a mile a minute idiom
- apace
- as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
- as if it is going out of style idiom
- at a rate of knots idiom
- crash
- fleet
- have a heavy foot idiom
- high-speed
- hotfoot
- in the twinkling of an eye idiom
- Jack Robinson
- lickety-split
- lightning
- mile
- rapid-fire
- smartly
- souped-up
- spread like wildfire idiom
- swift
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spankingadverb
uk/ˈspæŋ.kɪŋ/us/ˈspæŋ.kɪŋ/old-fashioned informal approving(used with some adjectives) very, completely:
a spanking new suit
spanking white sheets
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Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- deadly
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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spankingnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈspæŋ.kɪŋ/us/ˈspæŋ.kɪŋ/also spankthe act of hitting someone with the hand, usually several times on the bottom as a punishment or for sexual pleasure:
He needs a good spanking.
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Punishing by causing pain
- birch
- cane
- cat-o'-nine-tails
- corporal punishment
- flagellate
- flay
- horsewhip
- kneecap
- lynch
- lynch law
- mortification
- mortification of the flesh idiom
- rack
- stone
- tar
- thumbscrew
- treadmill
- walloping
- whip
- whipping
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