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Thwack

noun

A hard blow with a flat object.

verb

(past & past part. thwacked; pres. part. thwacking)

Deliver a hard blow to. Synonym: smack.

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"Thwack" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Bartley; and having accomplished the introduction, he hit Kinney a thwack between the shoulders with the flat of his hand that drove him stumbling across Marcia's footstool into the seat on the sofa to which she had pointed him. "You old fool, where did you ...

— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells

... Thwack! went the ax into the wood. Ned was strong, and every blow told. His mother, hearing the chopping, smiled to herself. She ...

— The Goody-Naughty Book • Sarah Cory Rippey

... his welfare was quite beyond him, knowing as he did that in no sense had he appealed to her susceptibility. And what, after all, could she mean by "great danger"? "Save yourself!" He sat for a long time considering the situation. At last he struck the window sill a resounding thwack with his fist and announced his decision to the ...

— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... angry at some little fling of his friend's, and burst into hot abuse of him. At first Ike was only astonished, and then his eyes, red with the dust of the brick-field, grew redder, the veins of his swarthy face swelled, and with a "Take that, Mistah Johnsonham," he gave Jim a resounding thwack across ...

— The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar

... Carfax sprang from his horse and rushed in upon the prostrate miller. Seizing one of the foresters' pikes the lean-faced man foully swung it down upon Much's pate with a sounding thwack. The miller gave a groan and became limp in the hands of ...

— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick

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