Sekirov Dictionary

thwack

/θwæk/

verb 8
noun 2
exclamation 1
forms 4

verb8

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To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.
- This carter thwacketh his horse upon the croup, / And they began to drawen and to stoop. — 1860
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(figurative) To decisively defeat (someone) in a contest; to beat, to thrash.
- [W]hat adventurous knight ever thought of the lady's terror, when he went to thwack giant, dragon, or magician, in her presence, and for her deliverance? — 1821
•
To drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting; to knock.
- But let him svveare so, and he shall not stay, / VVee'l thvvack him hence vvith Distaffes. — 1610
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To fall down hard with a thump.
- And see, that urchin, ho-ieroe! / His truant legs they sink from under, / And to the quaking sheet below [i.e., ice on which he has been skating], / Down thwacks he, with a thud like thunder! — 1831
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To pack (people or things) closely together; to cram.
- [W]hen hee comes to describe the office of his imaginarie doctor [he] thvvacks fourteene Scriptures into the margent, vvhereof not any one hath any iust colour of inference to his purpose: […] — 1610
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(no longer used) To crowd or pack (a place or thing) with people, objects, etc.
- And my lad Ascanius with a Troian mantel adorning, / Weau'd woorks thwackt with honor, to her gifts this parlye she lincketh. — 1582
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(no longer used) To be crammed or filled full.
- [A]ll that vvere vvithin the audience of these vvords and dovvn the Church, vvhich vvas as full as it could thvvack in thick multitudes, gave a loud general applause. — 1650
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(no longer used, rare) Of people: to crowd or pack a place.
- All the vvise vvenches i'the Tovvn vvill thvvack to such Sanctuaries, vvhen the times are troublesome, and Troopers trace the streets in terror. — 1629

noun2

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An act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; a whack; also, a powerful stroke involved in such hitting; a blow, a strike.
- Noble Captain, Lend a reasonable Thvvack, for the Love of God, vvith that Cane of yours, over these poor Shoulders. — 1704
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A dull or heavy slapping sound.
- "It's a comfort they're most on'em females," he pursued, sounding a thwack on his knee as he settled himself agreeably in his seat. — 1859

exclamation1

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Used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped.
- And then—Thwack! Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate, not head—clear across. — 1908

forms

thwacked · thwacking · thwacketh · thwacks

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