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swanker

swanker is the comparative form of swank.

Meaning of swank

Adjective

swank (comparative swanker, superlative swankest)

  1. Fashionably elegant, posh.
    • The fish house or shack is built without windows, covered with tar paper to keep out the light and wind, and set on the ice over about ten feet of water in a spot off shore where fish have been known to habitate habitually. […] A couple of boxes to sit on and a plank or mat for your feet and a...1939 January 13, Norrie Jackson, “With the Alumni”, in The Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume XXXIX, number 13, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 307, columns 1–2

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Noun

swanker (plural swankers)

  1. One who behaves in a swanky fashion.

Forms of swanker

pluralswankers

Questions about swanker

What does swanker mean?
Swanker means one who behaves in a swanky fashion.
What is swanker the comparative form of?
Swanker is the comparative form of swank.
What part of speech is swanker?
Swanker is a noun.
What is the plural of swanker?
The plural of swanker is swankers.

Words near swanker in the dictionary

  1. Swanigans
  2. swanimote
  3. swanimotes
  4. swank
  5. swanked
  6. swanker
  7. swankers
  8. swankest
  9. swankey
  10. swankeys
  11. swankie

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