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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spanking
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
spanking new (=completely new)
▪ a spanking new conference centre
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bondage, beating, whipping and spanking.
▪ But you wouldn't call that a spanking.
▪ Parents typically use threats and spankings when they feel powerless and angry.
▪ Still, I was willing to risk spankings for a taste of what I thought was out there.
▪ When they misbehave, we resort to various sanctions, including old-fashioned spanking at times.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Along a side street there prowled, one recent morning, a spanking white Rolls-Royce.
▪ In the distance, ponies in long-shafted light chariots trotted at a spanking pace, the wheels spinning around.
▪ Jules, entering into the charioteer spirit, drove standing up and the mare went along at a spanking trot.
▪ That he was wearing a spanking new snap-brimmed fedora.
▪ There is a plan to clear the site to make way for a spanking new conference centre.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
spanking

spanking \spank"ing\, a.

  1. Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing.

    Four spanking grays ready harnessed.
    --G. Colman, the Younger.

  2. Large; considerable. [Colloq.]

  3. Very; extremely; -- used especially in the phrase spanking new or brand spanking new, meaning completely new and unused. [informal]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spanking

1660s, "very big or fine," later (especially of horses) "moving at a lively pace" (1738), of uncertain origin; perhaps from a Scandinavian source (OED compares Danish spanke "to strut"). Probably also related to spanker "something striking" (for size, etc.), 1751; as a kind of sail from 1794.

spanking

"act of striking with the open hand," especially as a punishment administered to children, 1854, verbal noun from spank (v.).

Wiktionary
spanking
  1. 1 Fast and energetic. 2 (context often nautical English) Brisk and fresh. 3 remarkable of its kind. adv. (context colloquial now usually with “new” English) An intensifier. n. 1 A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks. 2 An incident of such punishment, or such physical act in a non-punitive context, such as a birthday spanking. v

  2. (present participle of spank English)

WordNet
spanking
  1. adj. quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, zippy]

  2. n. the act of slapping on the buttocks; "he gave the brat a good spanking"

Wikipedia
Spanking

Spanking is a type of corporal punishment involving the act of striking the buttocks of another person to cause physical pain, generally with an open hand (more commonly referred to in some countries as slapping or smacking). More severe forms of spanking, such as switching, paddling, belting, caning, whipping, and birching, involve the use of an implement instead of a hand.

Parents commonly spank children or adolescents in response to undesired behavior. Boys are more frequently spanked than girls, both at home and in school. Some countries have outlawed the spanking of children in every setting, including homes, schools, and penal institutions, but most allow it when done by a parent or guardian. Adults may spank other adults as well, often in an erotic context.

Usage examples of "spanking".

Finally I interrupted him and let him know that I wanted a brand spanking new furnace and two new carbon monoxide detectors, one in the basement and one upstairs.

Madame dominated the soft cheeks with her spanking hand, searing their curved flesh mercilessly and reddening them rapidly.

He smacked her hard with the brush ten more times, then put it down, pushed her soft jersey skirt up to her waist and renewed the spanking on her bare backside, now pink and luxuriantly framed by the hem of the corset and rosetted garter straps.

I thought would happen, for it stands to reason a spanking beauty like she is, which is allowed by them as should have known better to go jauntering round the country unbefriended, is bound to find herself in the briars.

Zieglar, brave in his Minute Man outfit, came zooming up to the parking area of the Center City Hoverbike and Racing Club, on his spanking new light suede colored hoverbike.

Whenever hummingbirds hovered at the spout to take a sip, hundreds of ants jumped on them, and for about six seconds there was a furious blurry thrashing in the air, then a spanking clean hummingbird skeleton dropped with a minuscule clunk onto the earth.

In contrast, the powerful-looking Basilisks were spanking new, clean, tested only by their recent flight from Carescria—and by their Helmsmen's ability to hurl them about in space in mock battles.

Her naked buttocks were still red from the spanking he had given her, and he could well imagine the succulent vision she was to the men who rode after him.

She picked up the paddle again quickly enough, pressed me down again on her lap, and commenced the loud and forceful spanking.

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See if you can spot the cultural clues here: In HBO's Sex and the City, a classic in the slutty-girl genre, the fictional characters blather endlessly about anal sex, oral sex, casual sex, wrinkled buttocks, spanking, boy toys, sex toys, and the ennui of marriage.

Each girl now placed herself with one hand touching a bedstead or some article of furniture, and as Clara turned her back to any of us we would slip slyly up behind and give a fine spanking slap on her bottom, making it assume a rosy flush all over.

She watched true horror glitter in his eyes, as though everything he'd witnessed on television was brand spanking new.

And, despite some people's possible qualms, Oversteegen had brought along the newly promoted Lieutenant Commander Betty Gohr to replace Blumenthal as Nike's brand spanking new tactical officer.

So what were a pair of brand spanking new destroyers of the Republican Navy doing in a parking orbit around the planet of Osiris?