The word 'swank' is correct and can be used in written English
It is an Old English term that means stylish, dressy, or fashionable. It can also mean showing off or behaving in a flashy or proud manner. Example: She walked into the room with swank, her designer dress and expensive jewelry catching everyone's eye.
Ermita, with its bullfighting memorabilia and miles of ham hanging from the ceiling, is a blend of rustic charm and upmarket swank.
If on a week day, pedestrians can barely navigate this traffic-congested, hawker-infested, heavily polluted stretch in Mumbai's swank suburb of Bandra, for the last three Sunday mornings these few kilometres of Linking Road have become a road of their own.
Some years ago, I witnessed a Swiss manager cuff a bellboy at a swank new hotel in Australia.
Only two months ago, a similar group destroyed a swank hotel in Pakistan's capital, killing more than 50 people.
Still, I expect they had a good swank about their status symbol, as no doubt the future owners of the SodaStream Samsung will.
Yes, she has a wardrobe to steal from, the private jets to swank about on, celebrity friends to boast about at school, etc.
And voilà, the "standard fresh" turkeys of the Sixties and Seventies that were all size and swank and no flavour became the norm on our Christmas tables.
You want to swank up a tree-lined avenue, preferably a couple of miles long, and have your driver sweep round the fountain before setting you down on a crisp marble step.
Swank was so moved, she bought the rights to it, going on to produce and star in the film of the same name.
Next Week: Nicholas Barber tries not to get his hopes up before seeing Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Also Showing: 13/03/2011 The Resident (91 mins, 15) A doctor (Hilary Swank) rents an apartment in an otherwise empty New York building, but comes to suspect that she's being spied on.
a) Angelina Jolie b) Hilary Swank c) Brad Pitt 11.
