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/θwæk/ · verb
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.
Flaies lustily thwack, / least plough séede lack.
Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]
VVith that Nic bounc'd up vvith a Spring equal to that of one of your nimbleſt Tumblers or Rope dancers, falls foul upon John Bull to ſnatch the Cudgel he had in his Hand, that he might Thvvack Levvis vvith it.
I had finished my toilet, and was loitering with Frank Bracebridge in the library, when we heard a distant thwacking sound, which he informed me was a signal for the serving up of the dinner.
Now, great logician! nothings enemy! / Who thwacketh nothing, and its numerous fry / Of little nothings, and the nothings grown; / The fog-lost nothings; and the nothings known.
[F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.
For the poor things [worshippers] would have other idols in place of those he [the iconoclast] thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth.
Use thwack when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Thwack means To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack..
Common synonyms include thack, bethwack, bang, baste.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This carter thwacketh his horse upon the croup, / And they began to drawen and to stoop.
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