Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supple; active.
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- verb Present participle of
swank .
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Examples
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Yes, yes, I've been swanking around with interviews instead of doing the right thing by my nearest and dearest.
Yakkity yak! karenmiller 2008
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There will be living, breathing, swanking Lib Dem secretaries of state boasting that they are implementing the party's manifesto? well, some of it anyway.
Lib Dems: They love the power, but they're not sure about the responsibility 2010
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To me this is hugely significant as is the presence of glorious Totty swanking around the place (Boris said he knew Labour were going to win when he saw the standard of totty at their conference in 97).
How did that happen then? Newmania 2008
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People bought his portraits in their thousands, gluing them into albums alongside friends and acquaintances, swanking about who they knew.
Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life; Fiona Banner: Duveens Commission 2010 2010
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What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags!
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags!
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Last night I once again looked up those photos of John Edwards swanking around the 9th Ward when he made his presidential announcement.
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What the voice of the people is saying is look at that frightful ass Spode swanking around in footer bags!
Boris, Wodehouse and Polly Newmania 2007
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It just happens to be anime night tonight, so I'm going to take my loot along and do some swanking.
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009
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It just happens to be anime night tonight, so I'm going to take my loot along and do some swanking.
gillpolack: I ought to point you to Richard Harland' gillpolack 2009
hernesheir commented on the word swanking
Anne Elizabeth Baker's 1854 Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases has this entry for swanking (p. 313): Strutting consequentially. "How he goes swanking along!." "What a swanking fellow he is!"
February 28, 2011
yarb commented on the word swanking
C.f. swank-pot.
February 28, 2011