"stylish, classy, posh," 1913, from earlier noun or verb; "A midland and s.w. dial. word taken into general slang use at the beginning of the 20th cent." [OED]; compare swank (n.) "ostentatious behavior," noted in 1854 as a Northampton word; swank (v.), from 1809 as "to strut, behave ostentatiously." Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *swank-, from PIE *sweng(w)-, a Germanic root meaning "to swing, turn, toss" (cognates: Middle High German swanken "to sway, totter, turn, swing," Old High German swingan "to swing;" see swing (v.)). Perhaps the notion is of "swinging" the body ostentatiously (compare swagger).
A separate word-thread derives from Old English swancor "pliant, bending," and from this comes swanky (n.) "active or clever young fellow" (c. 1500).
例文
1. There was no swank in Martin.
マーティンは自慢したことがない。
2.It was Swank 's judgment that he had become irrelevant.
スワンクの評価は、この人はもう取るに足らないということだ。
3.Don 't be such a swank ！
そんなに振るな！
4. Swank as well as I still hoped that perhaps they had not shown their hand completely.
スワンクと私はまだ希望を抱いています。彼らはまだ完全にカードを出していないかもしれません。
5. Swank was born in Washington State,or perhaps Nebraska.