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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spanker has 2 senses
- spanker(n = noun.person) slapper - a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand; "someone slapped me on the back and I turned to see who the slapper was"; "my father was the designated spanker in our family" is a kind of hitter, striker
- spanker(n = noun.artifact) Array - a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel; Array is a kind of fore-and-aft sail
Derived form verb spank1
CIDE DICTIONARY
spanker, n.
- One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking. [1913 Webster]
- The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called
driver . See Illust. under Sail. Totten. [1913 Webster] - One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse. [1913 Webster]
- Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. [1913 Webster]
spanker, n.
A small coin. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spanker, n.
1 a person or thing that spanks.
2 Naut. a fore-and-aft sail set on the after side of the mizen-mast.
3 a fast horse.
4 colloq. a person or thing of notable size or quality.
1 a person or thing that spanks.
2 Naut. a fore-and-aft sail set on the after side of the mizen-mast.
3 a fast horse.
4 colloq. a person or thing of notable size or quality.
ROGET THESAURUS
spanker
Size
N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.
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