English Explanatory Dictionary

swank

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Fashionably elegant, posh.
noun
  1. A fashionably elegant person.
  2. Ostentation; bravado.
verb
  1. To swagger, to show off.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈswæŋk/ [ˈswæŋk] en-au-swank.ogg /ˈsweɪ̯ŋk/ [ˈsweɪ̯ŋk] ~ /ˈswɛ̃ŋk/ [ˈswɛ̃ŋk]

Word forms

swank swanker swankest swanks swanking swanked

Etymology

From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”).

Synonyms

flex ostentate strut aura farm boulevardier cut a wide swath cut it fat cut round exhibitionize figure away flamboast flaunt floss fluff one's feathers gallery high-side let one's nuts hang ostent preen showboat show away show off strut one's stuff stunt swag it out swagger swank three-sheet venditate yaya

Related words

swankily swankiness swanky

Derived words

swankish swankly swankpot unswank
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