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thwack
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Word definitions for thwack in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thwack \Thwack\, n. A heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump. With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab tree and old iron rang. --Hudibras.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to hit hard with a stick," 1520s, of echoic origin. Related: Thwacked ; thwacking . The noun is recorded from 1580s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ From the next room came the thwack of darts and a louder hubbub of voices. ▪ He hit the flaring log such a hefty thwack that it broke in two. ▪ Rely more on the thwack than the look. ▪ Somebody had procured an aluminum bat, and ...
Usage examples of thwack.
She had seen that gentle side of him, the kind lover and the fatherlike mentor who had cared about Thwack and given the lad back his pride.
Strong psalmic chanting, like to nasal cocks, They join to thunderings of their hearty thwacks.
The sneery chuckle that he gave came from his recollection of the delight that the stupid directors had displayed when Falsythe thwacked the brief case and proclaimed its contents as important.
There came a sudden thwacking noise, and Schofield immediately felt a stinging, burning sensation on the back of his neck and then, to his horror, he suddenly realized that the thwacking noise had been the sound of something impacting against his neck at extremely high speed.
I aimed a wristy squash stroke that wrapped the leather round the back of his skull with a dull thwack.
Then he splashes his way into the marsh, thwacking the cordgrasses aside with the back of his arm.
Caught in midair, Grant threw her an exasperated look and thwacked the saltshaker down.
Claude choked on his bannocks and Bertrand thwacked him soundly on the back.
The bow shot back with a thwack, and Raifs shoulder took a bad recoil.
That business consisted in fetching the Commodore's craft such a thwack, that with all his pumps going he made straight for the nearest port to heave down and repair.
Sorrow leaped at him, but Stinker had already anticipated an attack, shifting sideways, and thwacked the hound on the side of the head with his staff, laying the poor beast out.
The engines whine louder and the thwacking of the chopper blades picks up.
With that, there was a thick thwack as the envelope landed on yet another pile of pleadings on one of the cabinets.
A small redheaded woodpecker, a male with black body and white stripe across its back and wings, was thwacking its beak industriously against the siding under the eaves.
There were yells of fury ending in the thwack of a rope's end on a bare back, and the moaning whimper of a frightened dog.