slang. [see SWANK v.] Ostentatious or pretentious behavior or talk; swagger; pretence.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Swank, an ostentatious air, an affectation of stateliness in the walk. ‘What a swank he cuts!’
1891. Hartland Gloss., Swank, s. and v., swagger.
1905. Daily Chron., 17 April, 6/2. What he said is quite true, barring the whisky—that is all swank.
1909. Westm. Gaz., 26 Jan., 4/1. ‘Swank,’ they realised, was the essential qualification for success in the new industry, believing that firms just awaking to its possibilities and the public would take them at their own valuation.
