swank
see also: Swank
Pronunciation Adjective

swank (comparative swanker, superlative swankest)

  1. Fashionably elegant, posh.
    • 2011, Richelle Mead, Succubus Dreams
      Warren, Emerald City's owner, had thrown a swank party at his house and invited the whole staff, along with about fifty others.
Noun

swank

  1. A fashionably elegant person.
    He's such a swank.
  2. Ostentation; bravado.
    The parvenu was full of swank.
    • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter I, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 884653065 ↗; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN, page 7 ↗:
      Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.
Verb

swank (swanks, present participle swanking; past and past participle swanked)

  1. To swagger, to show off.
    Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.
Related terms
Swank
Proper noun
  1. Surname



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