spanking

Bottom-focused discipline

Spanking is striking someone's buttocks with an open hand, typically as punishment for children or as erotic play between adults.

As an adjective, spanking means remarkably fast or vigorous: a spanking pace.

It also intensifies adjectives: spanking new, spanking clean.

A spanking breeze is fresh and brisk.

punishment

discipline

Trained self-control or specialty

smack · swat · slap · whack · caning · birching · consequences · reprimand · scolding · admonishment

parenting

discipline

Trained self-control or specialty

timeout · grounding · boundaries · rules · authority · upbringing · correction · child-rearing · traditional · old-fashioned

physical

sting

Sharp wound from insect

burning · tenderness · swelling · bottom · buttocks · palm · hand · paddle · switch · belt

intensifier

brand-new

Completely unused, just made

  • freshNewly made, not stale
  • crispFirm and breakable
  • briskQuick and invigorating

fast · quick · rapid · lively · vigorous · excellent · fine · remarkable · impressive · outstanding

Categories
Opposites
punishment method

spankingtimeout

Brief suspension of play

time-out · positive reinforcement · verbal warning · grounding · reasoning

INTENSITY/VIGOR (adverbial sense)

spankingbarely

Only just, almost not

hardly · slightly · scarcely · minimally · marginally

Phrases
Family

whipping, spank, slapping, spanked, spanks, spanker, spankers

Familiarity
Top 20,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13