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from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as pant.
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Examples
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(See the comments section of my pank patch post for her letter and AOL's reply.)
Pink Patch Ads Pulled on AOL and Facebook aka TBTAM 2008
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Or are tourists, who might as well have on a Hawaiian shirt, a camera dangling from their neck, and a fanny pank.
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One of the lamest things I have seen in a while. reply pank
Ning Launches Virtual Gifts, Allows Network Creators To Design Their Own Jason Kincaid 2005
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W'y you thump 'um, en w'en dey go pank dey is green;
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various
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Through the babel of voices came the regular pink-pank of a banjo in the parlour below.
The Second Chance 1910
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Through the babel of voices came the regular pink-pank of a banjo in the parlour below.
The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912
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W'y, you thump 'um, en w'en dey go pank dey is green;
The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902
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No darlin '' ittle Ethel to pank and tiss no more.
Other Things Being Equal Emma Wolf 1898
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An 'I wants a turly headed doll that ties and suts her eyes when she does to seep, and wears a shash and a pairesol, and anodder bigger dolly to be her mam-ma and pank her when she's naughty, an' I wants an 'ittle fat-iron, an' a cookstove, an 'wash-board.
Miss McDonald Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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Also you might try pairing your foods, as in getting a good source of protein paired with a carb and fat - a good protein will help the carb not to get your pank to dump as fast thus creating less of a glucose spike.
edwardvielmetti commented on the word pank
Another word we have is pank. It means to pat down something, as, " He panked down the sand around his sand castle." (Dictionary of American Regional English)
October 12, 2007
john commented on the word pank
Who do you mean by "we"? An American region, I presume?
October 12, 2007
DesertCynic commented on the word pank
My ma was from Northern Michigan. In the same vein as edwardweilmetti's comment she used pank similarly, but with the negative connotation of over-compressing. Don't pank those down when you pack them. Pank was almost always preceded by "don't".
June 5, 2012
bilby commented on the word pank
Exactly. On the cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide To Michigan it says "DON'T PANK."
June 6, 2012