SPANKING


Meaning of SPANKING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ spæŋkɪŋ ]

( spankings)

1.

If someone gives a child a spanking , they punish them by hitting them on the bottom several times with their hand.

Andrea gave her son a sound spanking.

N-COUNT

2.

If you describe something as spanking new, spanking clean, or spanking white, you mean that it is very new, very clean, or very white. ( INFORMAL )

...a spanking new Mercedes...

ADV : ADV adj [ emphasis ]

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