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Definition of thwack in English: thwackverb θwakθwæk [with object]Strike forcefully with a sharp blow. she thwacked the back of their knees with a cane Example sentencesExamples - So she took a stick and started thwacking my thighs like she was threshing wheat.
- He has no probs getting around at night thwacking the bad guys who terrorise his neighbourhood.
- Before I knew it, I was trying my hand on the local real-life links and thwacking a white ball with a metal stick right down a fairway.
- Four minutes after making his entrance, the wafer-like winger was thwacking Neilson from behind to concede a preventable penalty.
- Then, with a flourish, he thwacked my paying-in book twice with his stamp, initialled the counterfoil and handed it back to me with a relieved smile.
- Jumping on top of him, she began thwacking him with it in every possible place - the head, the face, the chest, the arms, the ears, the legs, the torso, everywhere.
- Defiant newsagent Tina Harfield sent a would-be armed robber on his bike after thwacking him with an axe handle.
- For a few short weeks each autumn, in playgrounds across the land, the tinny buzz of the Nokia and the iPod is supplanted by the sound of youngsters thwacking their nuts.
- Isaacs' fruitful usage of the ball meant the score soon multiplied to 2-as he royally thwacked a loose ball into the corner of the net.
- I was swimming along, and as I was making the turn at lap 46, a hand thwacked me on the head.
- They're coming up shortly after a federal judge thwacked the Pentagon's knuckles.
- ‘I hate that,’ she mumbled as she thwacked the ball.
- She was thwacking a button on the wall with all her might, and cursing wildly under her breath.
- Bernie continued madly thwacking my back with his hand, while waving the other in the air and shrieking, ‘She's alive!’
- We have, on the one hand, an arrogant, unqualified celebrity, and on the other, a burly guy who seems to have a problem with thwacking women around.
- The rest of the travel sector was also under the weather with Stagecoach (LSE: SGC) thwacked by a poor performance at its US coach operation.
- And then I thwacked my left knee on the washing machine this afternoon while I was cleaning out the rat cage, and it is all red and lumpy and it, too, hurts when I walk on it.
- It may not be long before the sound of willow thwacking leather reverberates across the middle kingdom.
- Sophia thwacked her hard on her back, and asked her concernedly, ‘Are you alright?’
- But just as the company is getting back to normalcy, another downturn in traveller numbers following the recent events in the US thwacked it again.
Synonyms hit, strike, beat, batter, pound, attack, assault, knock, rap, smack, slap, pummel, thump, punch, cudgel, thrash, bang, drub, welt, cuff, crack, buffet, box someone's ears informal bash, clobber, clout, clip, wallop, whack, belt, tan, biff, bop, lay into, pitch into, lace into, let someone have it, knock into the middle of next week, sock, lam, whomp British informal stick one on, slosh North American informal boff, bust, slug, light into, whale Australian/New Zealand informal dong, quilt literary smite, swinge
noun θwakθwæk A sharp blow. he hit it with a hefty thwack Example sentencesExamples - The only sound is the thwack of a Corsican mountain breeze.
- Mugabe is often seen sipping tea, eating cake and clapping at Harare Sports Club while revelling in the magical thwack of leather against willow.
- Diversity might include free-thinking, liberal-minded schools, alongside those that favour the firm thwack of the three Rs above all else.
- Sir Michael Peat has been described as the prince's right-hand man, leaving me to think that Charles should be using his left hand to give him a good thwack about the head.
- During that half awake dozing between thwacks, I often drift into lurid dreams.
- The sound of repeated thwacks lures you to the roasted-duck counter, where a small man with a big cleaver reduces a whole mahogany-colored bird into a pile of steamy, mouthwatering chunks in seconds.
- Then the thwack of 700 pages hitting the floor jolted me awake again.
- Again, aside from the thwack of the balls, it was superbly quiet.
- Guys are dumb, it takes us a couple of thwacks before we stop hitting our heads on walls.
- The thwack should have been an early wake-up call but the Minstermen continued to stumble and fumble thereafter.
- Then, grunting with effort, they lunge furiously, colliding with resounding thwacks, red-faced and panting.
- That opening sentence originally read ‘Scent and smoke and sweat hit the taste buds with an acid thwack at three o'clock in the morning’ - a limp travesty of the polished version.
- He landed with a sickening thwack on the hard pavement but miraculously was unhurt.
- The latest heavyweight report investigating pay inequalities between the genders landed last week, with a huge thwack, on news editors' desks up and down the country.
- Sitting at the computer I saw something large and dark fall past my peripheral vision followed by a dull thwack.
- Perhaps a well-timed thwack with a swatter works?
- And then the smart thwack of her hand on my shoulder and I was ‘it’.
- The nice thwack of the club hitting the ball is one of the few, if only, notable effects.
- Racquet connected with ball with an almighty thwack.
- The keys have a feel somewhere between the Pro and the 101, with a solid click but not the thwack of the IBM.
Synonyms blow, hit, punch, thump, smack, slap, bang, welt, cuff, box, crack informal bash, clobber, clout, clip, wallop, whack, belt, tan, biff, bop, sock, lam, whomp British informal slosh North American informal boff, bust, slug, whale Australian/New Zealand informal dong dated buffet
Origin Late Middle English: imitative. Rhymes aback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, claque, crack, Dirac, drack, flack, flak, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mac, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, track, vac, wack, whack, wrack, yak, Zack Definition of thwack in US English: thwackverbTHwakθwæk [with object]Strike forcefully with a sharp blow. she thwacked the back of their knees with a cane Example sentencesExamples - I was swimming along, and as I was making the turn at lap 46, a hand thwacked me on the head.
- Sophia thwacked her hard on her back, and asked her concernedly, ‘Are you alright?’
- Bernie continued madly thwacking my back with his hand, while waving the other in the air and shrieking, ‘She's alive!’
- Before I knew it, I was trying my hand on the local real-life links and thwacking a white ball with a metal stick right down a fairway.
- Four minutes after making his entrance, the wafer-like winger was thwacking Neilson from behind to concede a preventable penalty.
- They're coming up shortly after a federal judge thwacked the Pentagon's knuckles.
- Jumping on top of him, she began thwacking him with it in every possible place - the head, the face, the chest, the arms, the ears, the legs, the torso, everywhere.
- Defiant newsagent Tina Harfield sent a would-be armed robber on his bike after thwacking him with an axe handle.
- He has no probs getting around at night thwacking the bad guys who terrorise his neighbourhood.
- It may not be long before the sound of willow thwacking leather reverberates across the middle kingdom.
- Then, with a flourish, he thwacked my paying-in book twice with his stamp, initialled the counterfoil and handed it back to me with a relieved smile.
- We have, on the one hand, an arrogant, unqualified celebrity, and on the other, a burly guy who seems to have a problem with thwacking women around.
- She was thwacking a button on the wall with all her might, and cursing wildly under her breath.
- So she took a stick and started thwacking my thighs like she was threshing wheat.
- Isaacs' fruitful usage of the ball meant the score soon multiplied to 2-as he royally thwacked a loose ball into the corner of the net.
- The rest of the travel sector was also under the weather with Stagecoach (LSE: SGC) thwacked by a poor performance at its US coach operation.
- But just as the company is getting back to normalcy, another downturn in traveller numbers following the recent events in the US thwacked it again.
- And then I thwacked my left knee on the washing machine this afternoon while I was cleaning out the rat cage, and it is all red and lumpy and it, too, hurts when I walk on it.
- ‘I hate that,’ she mumbled as she thwacked the ball.
- For a few short weeks each autumn, in playgrounds across the land, the tinny buzz of the Nokia and the iPod is supplanted by the sound of youngsters thwacking their nuts.
Synonyms hit, strike, beat, batter, pound, attack, assault, knock, rap, smack, slap, pummel, thump, punch, cudgel, thrash, bang, drub, welt, cuff, crack, buffet, box someone's ears
nounTHwakθwæk A sharp blow. he hit it with a hefty thwack Example sentencesExamples - The only sound is the thwack of a Corsican mountain breeze.
- The nice thwack of the club hitting the ball is one of the few, if only, notable effects.
- Perhaps a well-timed thwack with a swatter works?
- He landed with a sickening thwack on the hard pavement but miraculously was unhurt.
- And then the smart thwack of her hand on my shoulder and I was ‘it’.
- Again, aside from the thwack of the balls, it was superbly quiet.
- Diversity might include free-thinking, liberal-minded schools, alongside those that favour the firm thwack of the three Rs above all else.
- Mugabe is often seen sipping tea, eating cake and clapping at Harare Sports Club while revelling in the magical thwack of leather against willow.
- The keys have a feel somewhere between the Pro and the 101, with a solid click but not the thwack of the IBM.
- During that half awake dozing between thwacks, I often drift into lurid dreams.
- Guys are dumb, it takes us a couple of thwacks before we stop hitting our heads on walls.
- The latest heavyweight report investigating pay inequalities between the genders landed last week, with a huge thwack, on news editors' desks up and down the country.
- Racquet connected with ball with an almighty thwack.
- Then, grunting with effort, they lunge furiously, colliding with resounding thwacks, red-faced and panting.
- Sir Michael Peat has been described as the prince's right-hand man, leaving me to think that Charles should be using his left hand to give him a good thwack about the head.
- The sound of repeated thwacks lures you to the roasted-duck counter, where a small man with a big cleaver reduces a whole mahogany-colored bird into a pile of steamy, mouthwatering chunks in seconds.
- Then the thwack of 700 pages hitting the floor jolted me awake again.
- Sitting at the computer I saw something large and dark fall past my peripheral vision followed by a dull thwack.
- That opening sentence originally read ‘Scent and smoke and sweat hit the taste buds with an acid thwack at three o'clock in the morning’ - a limp travesty of the polished version.
- The thwack should have been an early wake-up call but the Minstermen continued to stumble and fumble thereafter.
Synonyms blow, hit, punch, thump, smack, slap, bang, welt, cuff, box, crack
Origin Late Middle English: imitative. |