If you describe something as swanky, you mean that it is fashionable and expensive. one of the swanky hotels that line the Pacific shore at Acapulco. = ritzy. very fashionable and expensive (swank (19-21 centuries), perhaps from swanken )
disapproval If someone is swanking, they are speaking about things they own or things they have achieved, in order to impress other people. I have always been against swanking about all the things I have been lucky enough to win. = boast, brag. to speak or behave in a way that shows you think you are better than other people. proud, confident behaviour that shows you think you are better than other people