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The correct spelling is spanking.

How to pronounce spanking

/ˈspæŋkɪŋ/
verb

IPA: /ˈspæŋkɪŋ/

Say it like: Spa-nki-ng

The correct spelling is spanking. To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture, or form of sexual interaction. For example: "The ship was really spanking along."

Usage Examples

The ship was really spanking along.

Domestic spanking is often endured over the knee (or lap), formal spanking rather applied over a contraption such as a tresle or A-frame, with or without constraints

a spanking pace

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture, or form of sexual interaction.
  2. 2.To soundly defeat, to trounce.
  3. 3.To hit very hard
  4. 4.To move rapidly.

noun

  1. 1.A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks.
  2. 2.An incident of such punishment, or such physical act in a non-punitive context, such as a birthday spanking.

adjective

  1. 1.Fast and energetic.
  2. 2.Brisk and fresh.

adverb

  1. 1.(now usually with “new”) An intensifier.

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