What's the difference between spank and stank?

Spank


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
  • (n.) A blow with the open hand; a slap.
  • (v. i.) To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eventually he lays it back invitingly to Iniesta, 25 yards out, and he spanks it high and wide.
  • (2) Compared with the control group, both treatment groups of mothers reported significantly fewer child behavior problems, reduced stress levels, and less use of spanking.
  • (3) Spanking, in the last case, was the cause of an important luxation of T12-L1, at first with a complete paraplegia, and was associated with the fact that the child was only seen a few days after by a doctor and immediately referred.
  • (4) Peterson is accused of using a wooden switch to spank his 4-year-old son.
  • (5) It lured Harry Enfield from the BBC in a big-money deal in 2000, but Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show was a career low point.
  • (6) The tickets are only €10, yet the first prize is a brand spanking new Fiat Panda 4x4 – with all optional extras.
  • (7) Then, after a single, a full toss is offered to Sangakkara, and he spanks it through cover and stalks off for a sarnie.
  • (8) More disjointedness like that after kick-off and they'll get their hids spanked.
  • (9) The venue looked good and made Labour's point, a spanking new hospital standing as visual proof of Labour's investment in public services (a point only slightly undermined by the sight of an audience in coats and woolly hats, apparently because the central heating in the building was not yet working).
  • (10) He had been accused of abusing eight youngsters at Cambridge Hostel in the town by spanking and touching them.
  • (11) Fresh belief flowed through Arsenal, even more so two minutes later when Ramsey scored with a spanking volley.
  • (12) Smith was secretary of the Rochdale Hostel for Boys Association, where he was accused of abusing vulnerable youngsters by spanking and touching them.
  • (13) To emphasise the point, the Batmobile steals every scene it's in, juggernauting across the Gotham rooftops in a spectacular chase that ends with Wayne earning a spanking from his lovable cockney butler Michael Caine.
  • (14) DOWN UNDER He has just been given a lucrative new job where progress simply means doing better than David Moyes and last week he led his national team to a momentous spanking of the side reputed to be one of the best in history, but Louis van Gaal is not a happy man.
  • (15) My mother, out of patience, spanked him, but regretted it later.
  • (16) "Honey, get into that bath before I spank you," Bond warns.)
  • (17) And just as Mikey-Michael is reckoning that Eranga has yapped himself out of focus, he hammers down one that's absurdly short and outside leg, so Ali gets right on top of it and spanks a swivel-pull around the corner for four.
  • (18) However, controlling for positive communication or for a parent-oriented motivation for spanking eliminated the negative effects of spanking, suggesting that the negative effects reflected use of spanking as a replacement for positive communication with the child.
  • (19) Abusive fathers spanked their children significantly more often than the nonabusive fathers, and abusive mothers had the highest frequency of critical statements directed at their children.
  • (20) Another opening-day bust came from the arm of the Phillies' Cole Hamels, who marked his entry into the upper echelon of pitching salaries (six years for $144m) by getting spanked by Atlanta down at Turner Field.

Stank


Definition:

  • (a.) Weak; worn out.
  • (v. i.) To sigh.
  • (imp.) Stunk.
  • (n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.
  • (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
  • () of Stink

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
  • (2) As one contractor told me, the place "stank of money".
  • (3) And the brave nearly men of 2006 stank the place out like never before in 2010, a performance which would have put Le Pétomane to shame.
  • (4) Parfitt and Rossi spend most of the interview talking about how much they stank in the old days - they'd come off stage soaking, screw their clothes into a ball and wear them the next day.
  • (5) According to al-Dostor newspaper, a strongly pro-army broadsheet, Time's decision "stank of political bias".
  • (6) "After the first day or two the corpses swelled and stank," he wrote.
  • (7) In Glasgow the black Clyde stank and the sunshine, when it came, had to struggle through the near-permanent fug of carbon particles sent into the air by forges, rolling mills, ships, gasworks, shunting steam locomotives, and household fires in their hundreds of thousands.
  • (8) Clinical studies are performed on 15 workers from the chemical and pharmaceutic plant "Stanke Dimitrov".
  • (9) But the moment I came back to London I had to start again – it stank of cigarettes and got very dirty very quickly.
  • (10) "No 10 insisted on letting this go ahead, when it stank," she said.
  • (11) Newsnight producer Merion Jones, in an email to editor Peter Rippon, on evidence from one woman about the sex abuse that allegedly took place at BBC Television Centre: "One particular celebrity [redacted] absolutely stank of booze and sweat.
  • (12) In the UK, the admissions cover a highly controversial sale of a military radar to poverty-stricken Tanzania, which the development secretary Clare Short said at the time "stank" of corruption, but which the then prime minister, Tony Blair, forced through the cabinet.
  • (13) The city's Victorian plumbing was struggling to cope with the July heat and the place stank of sewage.
  • (14) £28m radar deal 'stank' Tanzania, on Africa's east coast, is one of the poorest states in the world, formerly controlled in turn by Arab slavers, German colonists and the British.
  • (15) A communal kitchen stank of shitty nappies and urine; and the occasional waft of cannabis from the landing opposite where another row of rooms housed other hostel residents.
  • (16) Whatever, this Early Days of Moulin Rouge theme is really working for me, given the manner in which they stank out the first leg was reminiscent of none other than Le Pétomane.
  • (17) It stank of sweat and the mouldering shirts, which they wore "till they fell apart, mate".)
  • (18) Dizzee Rascal has a few low-profile business interests, including a record label, Dirtee Stank, and Dirtee TV production company.
  • (19) Wormwood Scrubs filthy, overcrowded and dilapidated – prisons watchdog Read more In his concluding paragraph, Hardwick described meeting an 18-year-old who had for several months spent at least 22 hours a day in a cell with a broken window and a toilet that stank.
  • (20) The room was normally used as a nightclub, so it stank of alcopops and sick.