How to pronounce“thwack”in English
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Definitions of “thwack”
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.”
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.”
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.
“Him Ralph encountred, and straight grew / A fierce Dispute betwixt them two: / Th'one arm'd with Metall, t'other with Wood; / This fit for bruise, and that for Blood. / With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, / Hard Crab-tree and old Iron rang; / While none that saw them could divine / To which side Conquest would encline: […]”
A dull or heavy slapping sound.
“I had scrambled out of the coach, and was instinctively settling my cravat, when somebody brushed roughly by me, and I heard a smart thwack upon the coachman’s ear. […] And then came a second thwack, aimed at the driver's other ear, but which missed it, and hit him on the nose, causing a terrible effusion of blood.”
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