What's the difference between slapper and spanker?

Slapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, slaps.
  • (n.) Anything monstrous; a whopper.
  • (a.) Alt. of Slapping

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Women are either shaggable or saintly (maternal, married to a male celebrity, silent), or desiccated harridans and shameless slappers.
  • (2) He called two female students “slappers” in public, expressed disbelief towards a disclosure of sexual assault (“girls these days, with their short skirts”) and routinely undermines his female colleagues with sexist and dismissive language in formal settings.
  • (3) They are a mark of the slut, the slapper, the loose woman.
  • (4) sketch , but what that knee-slapper lacks in laughs it makes up for in timeliness.
  • (5) "Do you think that I planned and plotted, or lost a wink of sleep, scheming to spend a considerable part of my life trying to identify hog-slappers, cheese-winders' clerks, or theatre fireman's night companions?"

Spanker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.
  • (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail.
  • (n.) One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse.
  • (n.) Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person.
  • (n.) A small coin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was watching with my parents and a girlfriend in our small living room in Fife, a long way from the lifestyles of movers and shakers (and spankers) like Tynan.
  • (2) He seemed to bid farewell to the stage as a touring Prospero in The Tempest in 2003, but returned unexpectedly in 2010 as the military relic Adolphus Spanker in Nicholas Hytner's mellow National Theatre revival of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance , alongside Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale.