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swank

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"Fashionable elegance"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈswæŋk/Part of speech adjective, verb, nounSorted aknswStarts with SEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. imposingly fashionable and elegant

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • "You live in that swank apartment round the corner." "Yes." "Hey you must be rich."
  • You know it's swank when … It's very shiny / It's very tan / It's got Royale in its name
  • Mr. Heinz belonged to a very swank club in Pittsburgh.

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