Meanings
comparative swankier · superlative swankiest
- informalRather posh, elegant, ritzy.
So anyway, anniversary night and I've gone off. The sensational dinner, booked a swanky hotel and had a blinder.
1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 1261 more example
His manner never had been modest or retiring. Now it was unmistakably swanky; he was putting on side to an extent that made fellows who observed him smile and shrug their shoulders.
1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Tale-Bearer in Chief
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveimposingly fashionable and elegant
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic رَاقٍ
- رَاقٍ (rāqin)posh; elegant; ritzy
Bulgarian моден, шик
- моден (moden)posh; elegant; ritzy
- шик (šik)posh; elegant; ritzy
Catalan elegant
- elegantposh; elegant; ritzy
Chinese Mandarin 豪華 /豪华, 氣派 /气派
- 豪華 /豪华 (háohuá)posh; elegant; ritzy
- 氣派 /气派posh; elegant; ritzy
- 時髦 /时髦 (shímáo)posh; elegant; ritzy
- 高檔 /高档 (gāodàng)posh; elegant; ritzy
- 招搖 /招摇posh; elegant; ritzy
- 闊氣 /阔气 (kuòqì)posh; elegant; ritzy
- 裝腔作勢 /装腔作势 (zhuāngqiāngzuòshì)posh; elegant; ritzy
French classe, élégant
- classeposh; elegant; ritzy
- élégantposh; elegant; ritzy
German protzig, angeberisch
- protzigposh; elegant; ritzy
- angeberischposh; elegant; ritzy
- piekfeinposh; elegant; ritzy
- herausgeputztposh; elegant; ritzy
- schickposh; elegant; ritzy
Irish galánta
- galántaposh; elegant; ritzy
Polish szykowny, elegancki
- szykownyposh; elegant; ritzy
- eleganckiposh; elegant; ritzy
Spanish elegante, ricachon
- eleganteposh; elegant; ritzy
- ricachonposh; elegant; ritzy
Rhymes & wordplay
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swanky. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swanky
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