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Thwack

verb
(past & past part. thwacked; pres. part. thwacking)
1.
Deliver a hard blow to.  Synonym: smack.





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"Thwack" Quotes from Famous Books



... long to a solitary watch at the maiden's tower. For, just as dawn began to break, and my head, after the labours of the night, began to nod, I was roused with a thwack betwixt my jaw and my ear which sent me backwards to the ground. When I picked myself up, I found it was the English fellow whom Ludar had put snugly to roost on the parapet an hour or two since. He had come to in no very ...
— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed
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... Square-toes pleasure spread, Who, mutt'ring 'tween his teeth, with fervour said: O gracious Lord! to thee my thanks are due— To have a wife so chaste—a man so true! But presently he felt upon his back The falc'ner's cudgel vigorously thwack, Who soundly basted him as on he ran, To gain the house, ...
— The Tales and Novels, Complete • Jean de La Fontaine
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Words linked to "Thwack" :   blow, hit


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