swank

UK /ˈswæŋk/ US /ˈswæŋk/
noun 2adj 1verb 1name 1

Definitions

adj

1

Fashionably elegant, posh.

The fish house or shack is built without windows, covered with tar paper to keep out the light and wind, and set on the ice over about ten feet of water in a spot off shore where fish have been known to habitate habitually. […] A couple of boxes to sit on and a plank or mat for your feet and a small airtight stove, if you want swank comfort.

"You live in that swank apartment round the corner." "Yes." "Hey you must be rich."

noun

1

A fashionably elegant person.

Us Morans don't like swanks, and that girl was a swank. Stuck-up rich girl. She wore a practically new gabardine with the same paper Union Jack flag as me, only hers was tucked into her coat buttonhole, behind a gold cat pasted with jewels.

2

Ostentation; bravado.

'It is mere swank sending it to us,' said he. 'We have to be there whatever happens, as the hangman said to the murderer.'

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

1

To swagger, to show off.

Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.

He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes.

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