swank英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A fashionably elegant person. countable,uncountable

— 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.
Ostentation; bravado. countable,uncountable

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

动词 v.

To swagger, to show off.

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

形容词 adj.

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.

词形变化

swanker comparative swankest superlative swanks plural swanks present,singular,third-person swanking participle,present swanked participle,past swanked past

词源

词源 1

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”).

词源 2

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”).

词源 3

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”).