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Princeton's WordNet

  1. thwackverb

    a hard blow with a flat object

  2. smack, thwackverb

    deliver a hard blow to

    "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved"

Wiktionary

  1. thwacknoun

    The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement.

  2. thwacknoun

    To strike with a wet, slapping sound.

  3. thwackverb

    To whack or hit with flat implement.

  4. thwackverb

    To beat.

  5. Etymology: From a variant (influenced by whack) of thakken, from þaccian, from þakwōnan, from tag-. Cognate with þakolon, þykkr, þjökka, þjaka, tjåka, tango. More at tangent.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Thwacknoun

    A heavy hard blow.

    Etymology: from the verb.

    But Talgol first with a hard thwack
    Twice bruis’d his head, and twice his back. Hudibras.

    They place several pots of rice, with cudgels in the neighbourhood of each pot; the monkeys descend from the trees, take up the arms, and belabour one another with a storm of thwacks. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 50.

  2. To Thwackverb

    To strike with something blunt and heavy; to thresh; to bang; to belabour.

    Etymology: ðaccian , Saxon.

    He shall not stay;
    We’ll thwack him hence with distaffs. William Shakespeare.

    Nick fell foul upon John Bull, to snatch the cudgel he had in his hand, that he might thwack Lewis with it. Arbuthnot.

    These long fellows, as sightly as they are, should find their jackets well thwack’d. Arbuthnot.

Wikipedia

  1. thwack

    The sixth season of Weeds premiered on August 16, 2010, on the television cable network Showtime, and consisted of 13 episodes.

ChatGPT

  1. thwack

    Thwack is a verb that refers to the act of striking or hitting something forcefully, often causing a resonating sound. As a noun, it refers to the sound made by such a strike or blow. It is often used in informal conversation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Thwackverb

    to strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump

  2. Thwackverb

    to fill to overflow

  3. Thwacknoun

    a heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Thwack

    thwak, v.t. to strike with something blunt and heavy, to thrash.—n. a heavy blow. [A.S. thaccian, to stroke.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of thwack in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of thwack in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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