whack

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. The sound of a heavy strike.
2. The strike itself.
3. The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
4. (US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
5. (dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
6. (obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
7. (US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.
8. (dated) PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).
9. (slang) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
10. (alt-of, alternative, slang) Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”)

Verb

1. To hit, slap or strike.
2. (slang) To assassinate, bump off.
3. (slang, transitive) To share or parcel out (often with up).
4. To beat convincingly; to thrash.
5. (UK) To surpass; to better.
6. (Singapore, Singlish) To attempt something despite not knowing how to do it; to take on a task spontaneously and carelessly without planning.
7. (Singapore, Singlish) To eat something hurriedly.

Adj

Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”).

Concepts

frapper

coup

fesser

claquer

estampiller

rosser

toucher

clac

coup dur

coup violent

donner un grand coup

part

frapper fort

battre

ceinture

Synonymes

smack

strike

knock

blow

thwack

hit

wallop

bang

slap

bash

belt

whang

thump

slam

whop

wham

stroke

smite

pelt

smash

cudgel

swipe

beat

thrash

bop

jolt

slug

hit hard

belabour

bump

slog

attack

👊

clobber

impact

whomp

rap

biff

chop

punch

👊

clout

sock

strike down

strike out

swig

swing

tan

thud

trial

visit

whip

Traductions

afranselen

golpe

colpire

çarpmak

percossa

golpear

Schlag

schlagen

lêbezîn

colpo

percuotere

lêdan

kutan

χαστούκι

χαστουκίζω

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wæk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à moyen anglais: thakken

Appartenant à ancien anglais: þaccian

In summary

Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”).