spanking
IPA: spˈæŋkɪŋ
noun
- (uncountable) A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks.
- (countable) An incident of such punishment, or such physical act in a non-punitive context, such as a birthday spanking.
adjective
- Fast and energetic.
- (often nautical) Brisk and fresh.
adverb
- (colloquial, now usually with “new”) An intensifier.
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Examples of "spanking" in Sentences
- I wonder if spanking is a particularly British predilection?
- Do you believe in spanking or any other form of corporal punishment?
- And, when he pulls my hair in anger or kicks me, spanking is my first instinct.
- I hate to use the word spanking around college kids, because it just gives them ideas.
- Neither my husband (who was always spanked) nor I (almost never spanked) “believe” in spanking as a disciplinary tactic.
- The thing that really gets me with spanking is … if you saw a parent slap a kid across the face, would you think that was abusive?
- And, to tell you the truth, I think the “cold, calculated, warning” version of spanking is worst sometimes than the one that comes out of pure anger.
- The first group, wont to judge the parents who believe an occasional, mild, judicious spanking is proper — or the second group, who harshly condemns the parents who truly abuse their child, even to the point ofdeath?
- I tried to find the actual study with no luck (I only spent a couple of minutes looking for it); however, even the article you linked to has a quote from the doctor who completed the study where she clearly states spanking is a big gun for a big job (to paraphrase).
- Not because I think that spanking and spankers are in all circumstances evil and terrible – my own parents were spankers – but because I think that although spanking is not always or necessarily abusive, it tilts too obviously and too dangerously in that direction and anything that encourages the practice just might, you know, grease the slope.