receiving a traditional ?over-the-knee? spanking from Columbia as Uncle Sam looks on approvingly.]] Spanking is a commonly-used form of corporal punishment, consisting of one or more sharp smacks applied, often on the buttocks, but sometimes on other parts of the body. Linguistics The verb to spank has been known in English since 1727, possibly onomatopeic in nature. English and several other languages have a specific, common verb for spanking, that distinguishes it from corporal punishment applied to parts of the anatomy other than the buttocks. Thus in Latin the only word derived from culus (buttocks) was culare, meaning 'to spank,' similar to the Italian sculacciare; in Spanish "nalgadas" (nalga = butt cheek); in French, the verb is fesser, also from 'fesses' (buttocks). All of these terms testify to the historical or persisting prominence of this punitive target in many cultu

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