Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to swank
Participle: swanked
Gerund: swanking
Indicative
Present
| I | swank |
| you | swank |
| he;she;it | swanks |
| we | swank |
| you | swank |
| they | swank |
Perfect
| I | have swanked |
| you | have swanked |
| he;she;it | has swanked |
| we | have swanked |
| you | have swanked |
| they | have swanked |
Past
| I | swanked |
| you | swanked |
| he;she;it | swanked |
| we | swanked |
| you | swanked |
| they | swanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had swanked |
| you | had swanked |
| he;she;it | had swanked |
| we | had swanked |
| you | had swanked |
| they | had swanked |
Future
| I | will swank |
| you | will swank |
| he;she;it | will swank |
| we | will swank |
| you | will swank |
| they | will swank |
Future Perfect
| I | will have swanked |
| you | will have swanked |
| he;she;it | will have swanked |
| we | will have swanked |
| you | will have swanked |
| they | will have swanked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | swank |
| you | swank |
| he;she;it | swank |
| we | swank |
| you | swank |
| they | swank |
Perfect
| I | have swanked |
| you | have swanked |
| he;she;it | have swanked |
| we | have swanked |
| you | have swanked |
| they | have swanked |
Imperfect
| I | swanked |
| you | swanked |
| he;she;it | swanked |
| we | swanked |
| you | swanked |
| they | swanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had swanked |
| you | had swanked |
| he;she;it | had swanked |
| we | had swanked |
| you | had swanked |
| they | had swanked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would swank |
| you | would swank |
| he;she;it | would swank |
| we | would swank |
| you | would swank |
| they | would swank |
Perfect
| I | would have swanked |
| you | would have swanked |
| he;she;it | would have swanked |
| we | would have swanked |
| you | would have swanked |
| they | would have swanked |
Imperative
| you | swank |
| we | Let's swank |
| you | swank |
Verbs conjugated like 'swank'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'swank'
shank,
skank,
spank,
stank,
swan,
swang,
twank,
wank,
bank,
blank,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
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”). See: Proto-Germanic '
*swankijaną', Middle High German '
swanken', German, old spelling '
schwanken'.
Sample Sentences
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Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.
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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. [1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:]
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[Peter] O'Toole does for this movie [My Favorite Year] what [Alan] Swann does for the cast and crew of Comedy Cavalcade: he swanks in whenever there's a lull in the action and with a dapper flare of his cuffs sets off smiles, sighs, palpitations. [1982 November, James Wolcott, “Your Flick of Flicks: My Favorite Year Recalls the Comical Days of Early TV, when the Programs were so Good You Didn’t Want to Go to the Movies”, in Texas Monthly, volume 10, number 11, Austin, Tx.: Texas Monthly, Inc., →ISSN, page 219:]
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With their innuendos and condemnations, with their loud-mouthed gabble, what a frighteningly learned lot they are – not quite clever, and not quite skilled. But still, it's woman's nature to swank; they swank because they're women, so let them swank. We won't take offence. [1985, Hla Pe, quoting Ù Tò (J[ohn William Alan] Okell, transl., Yamá Yagan (1933), volume I, page 5), “Burmese Poetry, 1450–1885: Its Scope and Nature”, in Burma: Literature, Historiography, Scholarship, Language, Life, and Buddhism, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, →ISBN, page 14:]
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He hung up my coat – my shabby, two-seasons-old Gap coat – and it looked like the scruffy kid in class next to the fawn cashmere number swanking on the neighbouring peg. [2007, Lucy Diamond, chapter 2, in Any Way You Want Me, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:]