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noun
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."


verb
Thwack  v. t.  (past & past part. thwacked; pres. part. thwacking)  
1.
To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump. "A distant thwacking sound."
2.
To fill to overflow. (Obs.)





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"Thwack" Quotes from Famous Books



... to praise the wonderful landlord, Jonathan Pym, in a growling kind of tone as if, were I his spouse, he would thwack me well to cure my unbelief, as we jolted over the stones to the ruins of ...
— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall
... into whisky, why should we be hindered and our lives put into danger? We have a right to make whisky and to drink it and to sell it, and I'm goin' to do it in spite of all the officers in Kentucky," and he brought his big fist down with a thwack on his knee to give emphasis ...
— The Kentucky Ranger • Edward T. Curnick
... Audience is not yet awaked, looks round him with great Wrath, and repeats the Blow a third Time, which never fails to produce the Clap. He sometimes lets the Audience begin the Clap of themselves, and at the Conclusion of their Applause ratifies it with a single Thwack. ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... into a steady lope. As he settled himself in the saddle for a long ride he heard the drumming of hoofs, the hollow "thwack" of chaparral against wooden stirrups, the whoop of a Comanche; and Wells Pearson burst out of the brush at the right of the trail like a precocious yellow chick from ...
— Waifs and Strays - Part 1 • O. Henry
... has happened is that you gave your head a tremendous thwack," said the Baron; "but my object is to invite you on deck to enjoy the beautiful scenery we are passing through, before we put out into the open ocean, when we shall see no more ...
— Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin • William H. G. Kingston


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