swank
Plural: swanks
Noun
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
- A fashionably elegant person.
- Ostentation; bravado.
Verb
Verb Forms: swanked, swanking, swanks
- To walk or behave in an ostentatiously showy or arrogant manner.
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- To swagger, to show off.
Adjective Satellite
- imposingly fashionable and elegant
- "a swank apartment"
Adj
- Fashionably elegant, posh.
Adjective
- Imposingly elegant, fashionable, or ostentatious.
Examples
- He tended to SWANK about his high-scoring words, much to the annoyance of other Scrabble players.
- Her choice of the word SWANK for 70 points made her opponent’s board look decidedly less elegant.
- Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
chic, chichi, chicness, flash, flaunt, last word, modishness, ostentate, show off, smartness, stylishness, swanky
Scrabble Score: 12
swank: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordswank: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
swank: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary