different between swang vs swank

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sw?ng, IPA^(key): /swæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

Noun

swang (plural swangs)

1. A swamp.

Etymology 2

Verb

swang (third-person singular simple present swangs, present participle swanging, simple past and past participle swanged)

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) To steer one's vehicle from side to side while driving.
   • 2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge:

     Turn on my blinker light and then I swang it slow

   • 2006, Trae (featuring Pimp C and Big Hawk), "Swang", Restless:

     I'mma swang, I'mma swing my slab lean to the left

   • 2010, G. Washington, Karma from the Cradle to the Street, Xlibris (2010), ?ISBN, page 118:

     Caine pulled off burning rubber and swanging side to side.

2. (archaic and dialectal) simple past tense of swing. Now largely replaced by swung.

Anagrams

• gawns, gnaws, wangs

English

Etymology

From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijan? (“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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /swæ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

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 (countable and uncountable, plural swanks)

1. A fashionably elegant person.
2. Ostentation; bravado.

Verb

swank (third-person singular simple present swanks, present participle swanking, simple past and past participle swanked)

1. To swagger, to show off.

Related terms

• swankily
• swankiness
• swanky

Anagrams

• Kwans, kawns, knaws, wanks

Scots

Adjective

swank (comparative mair swank, superlative maist swank)

1. slender; pliant; agile; supple

   Synonym: swanking