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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thwack
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 the traditional thwack surrendered to a whistling hum.
▪ The customary thwack on the bottom is still the best method for determining doneness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thwack

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.

Thwack

Thwack \Thwack\ (thw[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thwacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Thwacking.] [Cf. OE. thakken to stroke, AS.

  1. To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump. ``A distant thwacking sound.''
    --W. Irving.

  2. To fill to overflow. [Obs.]
    --Stanyhurst.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thwack

"to hit hard with a stick," 1520s, of echoic origin. Related: Thwacked; thwacking. The noun is recorded from 1580s.

Wiktionary
thwack

n. 1 The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement. 2 A heavy slapping sound. vb. 1 To whack or hit with a flat implement. 2 To beat. 3 To fill to overflow.

WordNet
thwack

  1. n. a hard blow with a flat object

  2. v. deliver a hard blow to; "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved" [syn: smack]

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.