spankern.¹

Brit.

/ˈspaŋkə/, U.S.

/ˈspæŋkər/

Etymology: Related to spanking adj. or (in later use) < spank v.²

†1. slang. A gold coin; usually in plural, coin, money. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > [noun]

silverc825

feec870

pennieseOE

wortheOE

mintOE

scata1122

spense?c1225

spendinga1290

sumc1300

gooda1325

moneya1325

cattlec1330

muckc1330

reasona1382

pecunyc1400

gilt1497

argentc1500

gelta1529

Mammon1539

ale silver1541

scruff1559

the sinews of war1560

sterling1565

lour1567

will-do-all1583

shell1591

trasha1592

quinyie1596

brass1597

pecuniary1604

dust1607

nomisma1614

countera1616

cross and pilea1625

gingerbreada1625

rhinoa1628

cash1646

grig1657

spanker1663

cole1673

goree1699

mopus1699

quid1699

ribbin1699

bustle1763

necessary1772

stuff1775

needfula1777

iron1785

(the) Spanish1788

pecuniar1793

kelter1807

dibs1812

steven1812

pewter1814

brad1819

pogue1819

rent1823

stumpy1828

posh1830

L. S. D.1835

rivetc1835

tin1836

mint sauce1839

nobbins1846

ochre1846

dingbat1848

dough1848

cheese1850

California1851

mali1851

ducat1853

pay dirt1853

boodle?1856

dinero1856

scad1856

the shiny1856

spondulicks1857

rust1858

soap1860

sugar1862

coin1874

filthy1876

wampum1876

ooftish1877

shekel1883

oil1885

oof1885

mon1888

Jack1890

sploshc1890

bees and honey1892

spending-brass1896

stiff1897

mazuma1900

mazoom1901

cabbage1903

lettuce1903

Oscar Asche1905

jingle1906

doubloons1908

kale1912

scratch1914

green1917

oscar1917

snow1925

poke1926

oodle1930

potatos1931

bread1935

moolah1936

acker1939

moo1941

lolly1943

loot1943

poppy1943

mazoola1944

dosh1953

bickies1966

lovely jubbly1990

scrilla1994

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > (a) gold coin

golds1478

gold coin1533

ruddock1567

red one1568

goldingc1580

pestle of a portigue1598

gold piece1606

yellowhammera1627

yellow boy1654

spanker1663

ridge1667

gold drop1701

spank1725

glistener1818

money-gold1841

canary1851

1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. ii. v. 18 Mean time, thou pretty little Smith o' my good fortune, beat hard upon the Anvil of your Plot, I'l go and provide the Spankers.

1668 J. Denham Poems 124 Your Cure too costs you but a spanker.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 269 Tho' he can produce more Spankers Than all the Usurers and Bankers.

1708 Motteux Rabelais, Pant. Progn. vi Old Gold, such as your Double Ducats, Rose-Nobles, Angels, Spankers, Spur-Royals.

1760 S. Foote Minor ii. 52 Procure you the spankers, my boy. I have a broker, that..shall take off your bargain.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Spanks

a. dialect and colloquial. Anything exceptionally large or fine; a person, animal, or thing of superior quality or character.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing

carbunclea1350

swanc1386

phoenixc1400

diamondc1440

broocha1464

surmounterc1500

sovereign?a1513

primrose peerless1523

superlative1577

transcendent1593

Arabian birda1616

crack1637

first rate1681

peach1710

phoenicle1711

admiration1717

spanker1751

first-raterc1760

no slouch of1767

nailer1806

tip-topper1822

ripper1825

ripstaver1828

apotheosis1832

clinker1836

clipper1836

bird1839

keener1839

ripsnorter1840

beater1845

firecracker1845

pumpkin1845

screamer1846

stunner1847

bottler1855

beaut1866

bobby-dazzler1866

one out of the box1867

stem-winder1875

corker1877

trimmer1878

hot stuff1884

daisy1886

jim-dandy1887

cracker1891

jim-hickey1895

peacherino1896

pippin1897

alpha plus1898

peacherine1900

pip1900

humdinger1905

bosker1906

hummer1907

good egg1914

superstar1914

the berries1918

bee's knee1923

the cat's whiskers1923

smash1923

smash hit1923

brahma1925

dilly1935

piss-cutter1935

killer1937

killer-diller1938

a hard act to follow1942

peacheroo1942

bitch1946

brammerc1950

hot shit1960

Tiffany1973

bollocks1981

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind

swinger1599

rapper1653

thumper1660

whisker1668

spanker1751

slapper1781

whopper1785

skelper1790

smasher1794

pelter1811

swapper1818

jumbo1823

sneezer1823

whacker1825

whanger1825

infant1832

bulger1835

three-decker1835

bouncer1842

snorter1859

whalera1860

plonker1862

bruiser1868

snapper1874

plumper1881

boomer1885

heavy1897

sollicker1898

sanakatowzer1903

Moby Dicka1974

stonker1987

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > something exceedingly great in degree

the utter1584

swinger1599

a devil of a ——1604

thumper1660

whisker1668

a (also the, one) hell of a ——c1680

swapperc1700

spanker1751

whopper1785

whacker1825

whanger1825

utmost1856

howler1872

hell1931

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. xcv. 24 To turn me adrift in the dark with such a spanker.

1838 W. H. Maxwell Stories Waterloo I. 208 Miss O'Brien was what Rattigan called a spanker.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 196 Her passage either way, is almost certain to eventuate a spanker!

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 137 ‘The scale on which your new establishment is to be maintained.’ ‘Yes..it's to be a spanker.’

1888 W. H. H. Rogers Memorials of West 32 We..are soon rewarded by a brace or so of spankers [sc. fish], whose appearance in our basket [etc.].

b. A heavy blow or smack.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow

smitea1200

ponder1339

clouta1400

whopc1440

routa1450

maul1481

sousec1500

dunta1522

flake1559

lambskin1573

lamback1592

daud1596

baster1600

mell1658

thumper1682

lounder1723

smash1725

plumper1756

spanker1772

douser1782

thud1787

bash1805

stave1819

batter1823

belter1823

wallop1823

whacker1823

belt1825

smasher1829

dingbat1843

dinger1845

oner1861

squeaker1877

clod1886

wham1923

dong1941

1772 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (rev. ed.) xi. 491 Ajax gave him two such spankers, They smarted worse than nodes and shankers.

1894 G. Meredith Lord Ormont i Matey's sure aim..relieving J. Masner of a foremost assailant with a spanker on the nob.

3. Nautical.

a. A fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff and boom at the aftermost part of the ship. Cf. also driver n. 10 and mizzen n. 1.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sails set near stern > specific

driver1750

ringtail1769

spanker1794

storm mizzen1794

jigger1831

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 162 The Driver-boom, on which the foot of the driver, or spanker, is extended.

1804 Log ‘Victory’ 15 June in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 72 Wore and set the mainsail and spanker.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 276 There was no sail now on the ship but the spanker and the close-reefed main top-sail.

1894 W. C. Russell Good Ship ‘Mohock’ I. 55 He..told the officer..to brail up the spanker.

attributive.1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 217 The Driver or Spanker Sail is bent as a temporary matter.1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiii. 230 One boy at the spanker-sheet and guy.1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 66 A frigate bird alighted on the spanker-gaff.1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 251 The last decade of the last century, when the spanker-gaff and boom came in.

b. In full spanker mast. The fourth (or fifth) mast of a ship with four or more masts.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > other masts on ships with more than three

spanker1853

pusher1901

1853 D. McLean Great Republic 17 The ship has 4 masts, the after one named the spanker mast.

1892 Nautical Mag. June 546 During the first four years of the four-posters, the ‘after mizzen’ and ‘spanker mast’ were sometimes heard of.

1901 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) (Electronic text) 2 Dec. The nomenclature of the masts has been settled by the owner, Captain J. C. Crowley, who calls them, respectively, fore, main, mizzen, spanker, jigger, driver and pusher.

1946 Amer. Neptune VI. 138/1 Mr. Bush called the fourth mast the ‘jigger’ and the fifth the ‘spanker’, the reverse of the usual nomenclature.

1970 H. Chevalier Last Voy. Rosamond 37 We soon not only learned the names of the four masts—the foremast, the mainmast, the mizzen and the spanker.

4. dialect. (See quots.)

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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > with long steps > one who

spanker1808

strider1856

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Spanker, one who walks in a quick and elastic way.

1811 R. Willan in Archaeologia 17 159 Spanker, a tall, and active young person.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Spanker, a person who takes long steps with agility.

5. dialect and colloquial. A horse which travels quickly and smartly; a fast-going horse.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > swift horse

courserc1300

stirring horse1477

runnera1500

stirrer1570

spanker1814

ganger1817

ginger1825

clipper1836

traveller1889

speeler1893

pelter1899

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xvi. 246 And ye wanted a spanker that would lead the field,..I would serve ye easy.

1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. i. xix That are horse goes etarnal fast... He's a spanker you may depend.

1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. I. ii. 31 The spankers strike out and away they do go..from Hounslow to Staines.

6. U.S. A light cart suitable for rapid travelling.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > other light or small

dray1565

Windsor chair1724

ekka1811

Jersey wagon1811

spanker1831

bounder1842

1831 in A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus (1892) I. 318 Our vehicle, which in the dialect of the country was called a spanker, was intended for four persons.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spanker
释义	spankern.¹ Brit. /ˈspaŋkə/, U.S. /ˈspæŋkər/ Etymology: Related to spanking adj. or (in later use) < spank v.² †1. slang. A gold coin; usually in plural, coin, money. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] silverc825 feec870 pennieseOE wortheOE mintOE scata1122 spense?c1225 spendinga1290 sumc1300 gooda1325 moneya1325 cattlec1330 muckc1330 reasona1382 pecunyc1400 gilt1497 argentc1500 gelta1529 Mammon1539 ale silver1541 scruff1559 the sinews of war1560 sterling1565 lour1567 will-do-all1583 shell1591 trasha1592 quinyie1596 brass1597 pecuniary1604 dust1607 nomisma1614 countera1616 cross and pilea1625 gingerbreada1625 rhinoa1628 cash1646 grig1657 spanker1663 cole1673 goree1699 mopus1699 quid1699 ribbin1699 bustle1763 necessary1772 stuff1775 needfula1777 iron1785 (the) Spanish1788 pecuniar1793 kelter1807 dibs1812 steven1812 pewter1814 brad1819 pogue1819 rent1823 stumpy1828 posh1830 L. S. D.1835 rivetc1835 tin1836 mint sauce1839 nobbins1846 ochre1846 dingbat1848 dough1848 cheese1850 California1851 mali1851 ducat1853 pay dirt1853 boodle?1856 dinero1856 scad1856 the shiny1856 spondulicks1857 rust1858 soap1860 sugar1862 coin1874 filthy1876 wampum1876 ooftish1877 shekel1883 oil1885 oof1885 mon1888 Jack1890 sploshc1890 bees and honey1892 spending-brass1896 stiff1897 mazuma1900 mazoom1901 cabbage1903 lettuce1903 Oscar Asche1905 jingle1906 doubloons1908 kale1912 scratch1914 green1917 oscar1917 snow1925 poke1926 oodle1930 potatos1931 bread1935 moolah1936 acker1939 moo1941 lolly1943 loot1943 poppy1943 mazoola1944 dosh1953 bickies1966 lovely jubbly1990 scrilla1994 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > (a) gold coin golds1478 gold coin1533 ruddock1567 red one1568 goldingc1580 pestle of a portigue1598 gold piece1606 yellowhammera1627 yellow boy1654 spanker1663 ridge1667 gold drop1701 spank1725 glistener1818 money-gold1841 canary1851 1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. ii. v. 18 Mean time, thou pretty little Smith o' my good fortune, beat hard upon the Anvil of your Plot, I'l go and provide the Spankers. 1668 J. Denham Poems 124 Your Cure too costs you but a spanker. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 269 Tho' he can produce more Spankers Than all the Usurers and Bankers. 1708 Motteux Rabelais, Pant. Progn. vi Old Gold, such as your Double Ducats, Rose-Nobles, Angels, Spankers, Spur-Royals. 1760 S. Foote Minor ii. 52 Procure you the spankers, my boy. I have a broker, that..shall take off your bargain. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Spanks 2. a. dialect and colloquial. Anything exceptionally large or fine; a person, animal, or thing of superior quality or character. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing carbunclea1350 swanc1386 phoenixc1400 diamondc1440 broocha1464 surmounterc1500 sovereign?a1513 primrose peerless1523 superlative1577 transcendent1593 Arabian birda1616 crack1637 first rate1681 peach1710 phoenicle1711 admiration1717 spanker1751 first-raterc1760 no slouch of1767 nailer1806 tip-topper1822 ripper1825 ripstaver1828 apotheosis1832 clinker1836 clipper1836 bird1839 keener1839 ripsnorter1840 beater1845 firecracker1845 pumpkin1845 screamer1846 stunner1847 bottler1855 beaut1866 bobby-dazzler1866 one out of the box1867 stem-winder1875 corker1877 trimmer1878 hot stuff1884 daisy1886 jim-dandy1887 cracker1891 jim-hickey1895 peacherino1896 pippin1897 alpha plus1898 peacherine1900 pip1900 humdinger1905 bosker1906 hummer1907 good egg1914 superstar1914 the berries1918 bee's knee1923 the cat's whiskers1923 smash1923 smash hit1923 brahma1925 dilly1935 piss-cutter1935 killer1937 killer-diller1938 a hard act to follow1942 peacheroo1942 bitch1946 brammerc1950 hot shit1960 Tiffany1973 bollocks1981 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind swinger1599 rapper1653 thumper1660 whisker1668 spanker1751 slapper1781 whopper1785 skelper1790 smasher1794 pelter1811 swapper1818 jumbo1823 sneezer1823 whacker1825 whanger1825 infant1832 bulger1835 three-decker1835 bouncer1842 snorter1859 whalera1860 plonker1862 bruiser1868 snapper1874 plumper1881 boomer1885 heavy1897 sollicker1898 sanakatowzer1903 Moby Dicka1974 stonker1987 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > something exceedingly great in degree the utter1584 swinger1599 a devil of a ——1604 thumper1660 whisker1668 a (also the, one) hell of a ——c1680 swapperc1700 spanker1751 whopper1785 whacker1825 whanger1825 utmost1856 howler1872 hell1931 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. xcv. 24 To turn me adrift in the dark with such a spanker. 1838 W. H. Maxwell Stories Waterloo I. 208 Miss O'Brien was what Rattigan called a spanker. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 196 Her passage either way, is almost certain to eventuate a spanker! 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 137 ‘The scale on which your new establishment is to be maintained.’ ‘Yes..it's to be a spanker.’ 1888 W. H. H. Rogers Memorials of West 32 We..are soon rewarded by a brace or so of spankers [sc. fish], whose appearance in our basket [etc.]. b. A heavy blow or smack. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow smitea1200 ponder1339 clouta1400 whopc1440 routa1450 maul1481 sousec1500 dunta1522 flake1559 lambskin1573 lamback1592 daud1596 baster1600 mell1658 thumper1682 lounder1723 smash1725 plumper1756 spanker1772 douser1782 thud1787 bash1805 stave1819 batter1823 belter1823 wallop1823 whacker1823 belt1825 smasher1829 dingbat1843 dinger1845 oner1861 squeaker1877 clod1886 wham1923 dong1941 1772 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (rev. ed.) xi. 491 Ajax gave him two such spankers, They smarted worse than nodes and shankers. 1894 G. Meredith Lord Ormont i Matey's sure aim..relieving J. Masner of a foremost assailant with a spanker on the nob. 3. Nautical. a. A fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff and boom at the aftermost part of the ship. Cf. also driver n. 10 and mizzen n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sails set near stern > specific driver1750 ringtail1769 spanker1794 storm mizzen1794 jigger1831 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 162 The Driver-boom, on which the foot of the driver, or spanker, is extended. 1804 Log ‘Victory’ 15 June in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 72 Wore and set the mainsail and spanker. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 276 There was no sail now on the ship but the spanker and the close-reefed main top-sail. 1894 W. C. Russell Good Ship ‘Mohock’ I. 55 He..told the officer..to brail up the spanker. attributive.1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 217 The Driver or Spanker Sail is bent as a temporary matter.1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiii. 230 One boy at the spanker-sheet and guy.1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 66 A frigate bird alighted on the spanker-gaff.1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 251 The last decade of the last century, when the spanker-gaff and boom came in. b. In full spanker mast. The fourth (or fifth) mast of a ship with four or more masts. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > other masts on ships with more than three spanker1853 pusher1901 1853 D. McLean Great Republic 17 The ship has 4 masts, the after one named the spanker mast. 1892 Nautical Mag. June 546 During the first four years of the four-posters, the ‘after mizzen’ and ‘spanker mast’ were sometimes heard of. 1901 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) (Electronic text) 2 Dec. The nomenclature of the masts has been settled by the owner, Captain J. C. Crowley, who calls them, respectively, fore, main, mizzen, spanker, jigger, driver and pusher. 1946 Amer. Neptune VI. 138/1 Mr. Bush called the fourth mast the ‘jigger’ and the fifth the ‘spanker’, the reverse of the usual nomenclature. 1970 H. Chevalier Last Voy. Rosamond 37 We soon not only learned the names of the four masts—the foremast, the mainmast, the mizzen and the spanker. 4. dialect. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > with long steps > one who spanker1808 strider1856 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Spanker, one who walks in a quick and elastic way. 1811 R. Willan in Archaeologia 17 159 Spanker, a tall, and active young person. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Spanker, a person who takes long steps with agility. 5. dialect and colloquial. A horse which travels quickly and smartly; a fast-going horse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > swift horse courserc1300 stirring horse1477 runnera1500 stirrer1570 spanker1814 ganger1817 ginger1825 clipper1836 traveller1889 speeler1893 pelter1899 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xvi. 246 And ye wanted a spanker that would lead the field,..I would serve ye easy. View more context for this quotation 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. i. xix That are horse goes etarnal fast... He's a spanker you may depend. 1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. I. ii. 31 The spankers strike out and away they do go..from Hounslow to Staines. 6. U.S. A light cart suitable for rapid travelling. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > other light or small dray1565 Windsor chair1724 ekka1811 Jersey wagon1811 spanker1831 bounder1842 1831 in A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus (1892) I. 318 Our vehicle, which in the dialect of the country was called a spanker, was intended for four persons. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). spankern.² Etymology: < spank v.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspanker. One who, or that which, spanks or slaps. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand > with the open hand > one who spanker1892 1892 Newcastle Daily Jrnl. 1 Jan. 8/3 A wonderful invention to serve three purposes—a self-rocking cradle, a clothes wringer, and a ‘baby spanker.’ 1931 K. Boyle Plagued by Nightingale iv. 28 Washer~women bending over the stream..and with wooden spankers beating the life out of dish-cloths. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹1663n.²1892
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