smiska

== Swedish == === Etymology === Likely onomatopoeic. === Verb === smiska (present smiskar, preterite smiskade, supine smiskat, imperative smiska) to spank (on the buttocks) ==== Usage notes ==== Sometimes and especially historically also used more generally for hitting in the context of corporal punishment of children ("smisk på fingrarna" = "getting hit on the fingers"). The sense has shifted more purely towards spanking with all forms of corporal punishment of children being outlawed since 1979. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== smisk (“spanking”) ==== See also ==== aga (“corporal punishment (of children)”) ==== References ==== “smiska”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “smiska”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) smiska in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)