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单词 spanking
释义 spank·ing
I. \ˈspaŋkiŋ, -paiŋ-, -kēŋ\ adjective
Etymology: origin unknown
1. : remarkable of its kind : unusual or distinctive in some manner
 < rode the noble animal over the spanking leap — Samuel Lover >
 < her smocked … cotton brought up behind with a spanking bow — Mademoiselle >
2.
 a. : moving or capable of moving with a quick lively pace
  < drove … by buckboard behind a spanking pair of the little mules — J.H.Allen >
 b. : dashing, merry
  < passed our house … at a spanking three miles an hour — Ben Riker >
  < like to be towed astern, riding surfboard … at a spanking clip — Jerome Ellison >
 c. : being fresh and strong : brisk — usually used of a breeze
  < small boats dance on the clear blue waters in the spanking breeze — Bentz Plagemann >
II. adverb
: exceptionally, very
 < put that away spanking clean last fall — Charles Boswell >
 < spanking new modernistic structures, all concrete and colored glass — Ridgely Cummings >
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