OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 23052

thwack

/θwæk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chingadazo
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…
[H]e trudged rapidly up the steep avenue of the Alhambra, singing as he went, and now and then bestowing a hearty thwack with a cudgel on the flanks of his donkey, either by way of…
Phrases
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Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 23051

thwack

/θwæk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
arrimar • fajar • hostiar
To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.
Flaies lustily thwack, / least plough séede lack.
This carter thwacketh his horse upon the croup, / And they began to drawen and to stoop.