spanking

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spank·ing1 /ˈspæŋkɪŋ/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

the act of hitting a child on their bottom with your open hand, as a punishment 打屁股〔对小孩的惩罚〕

If you don’t stop that noise, you’ll get a spanking!

如果你再弄出那种响声，就要打你屁股了！

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spanking• But you wouldn't call that a spanking.• Parents typically use threats and spankings when they feel powerless and angry.• Bondage, beating, whipping and spanking.• When they misbehave, we resort to various sanctions, including old-fashioned spanking at times.• Still, I was willing to risk spankings for a taste of what I thought was out there.

get ... spanking• If you do that again, you're going to get a spanking!

spanking2 adverbadv informal

1 spanking new informal VERYvery new and impressive 崭新的，簇新的

a spanking new shopping centre

一家簇新的购物中心

2. spanking clean informal very clean 非常干净

spanking3 adjectiveadj British EnglishBrE

at a spanking pace/rate old-fashionedFAST/QUICK very fast 快速地

They started walking at a spanking rate.

他们开始疾走。

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at a spanking pace/rate• In the distance, ponies in long-shafted light chariots trotted at a spanking pace, the wheels spinning around.

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spanking• There is a plan to clear the site to make way for a spanking new conference centre.• That he was wearing a spanking new snap-brimmed fedora.• 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.• Along a side street there prowled, one recent morning, a spanking white Rolls-Royce.

Origin spanking1

(1800-1900) spank

spanking2

(1600-1700) Perhaps from a Scandinavian language

Chinese

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