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thwack

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6 lettersPronunciation /θwæk/Part of speech noun, verbSorted achktwStarts with TEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a hard blow with a flat object

Word origin

The noun and interjection are derived from the verb.

Used in a sentence

  • “This carter thwacketh his horse upon the croup, / And they began to drawen and to stoop.”
    This carter thrashes his horse upon the croup, / And they began to draw 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 […]”
    Hengist, King of Kent

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