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swank

UK/ˈswæŋk/ US/ˈswæŋk/ rare
noun (1) adjective (1) verb (1)

noun

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adjective

1.

imposingly fashionable and elegant

  • “a swank apartment”
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verb

1.

display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

  • “he showed off his new sports car”
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Origin

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”).

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