thwack

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.
2. (also, figuratively, transitive) To drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting; to knock.
3. (transitive) To pack (people or things) closely together; to cram.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To decisively defeat (someone) in a contest; to beat, to thrash.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To crowd or pack (a place or thing) with people, objects, etc.
6. (intransitive) To fall down hard with a thump.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To be crammed or filled full.
8. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Of people: to crowd or pack a place.

Noun

1. An act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; a whack; also, a powerful stroke involved in such hitting; a blow, a strike.
2. A dull or heavy slapping sound.

Intj

Used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped.

Synonyms

whack

smack

swat

slug

bang

whomp

crack

strike

slap

thrash

compact

hit

maul

pound

💷

pounding

rodding

slam

spat

tan

thud

thump

wallop

assault

heavy thrashing

attack

👊

bash

belt

biff

blow

bray

clap

👏

clobber

clout

Translations

durchbläuen

copejar

plantofada

fer espetegar

durchbleuen

verprügeln

κοπανίζω

κτύπημα με κόπανο

χτύπημα με κόπανο

βαράω

blessure

coup

gifle

colpire

Pronounced as (IPA)

/θwæk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: twakken

Inherited from Middle English: thakken

Inherited from Old English: þaccian

Cognate with Latin: tangō

Cognate with Old Dutch: þakolōn

Cognate with Old Norse: þykkr

Cognate with Icelandic: þjaka

Cognate with Norwegian: tjåka

In summary

The verb is probably:
* partly onomatopoeic, from the sound of something being beaten (compare whack); and
* partly derived from Late Middle English twakken, twake (“to hit (someone) with something; to pat; to stroke”), probably from Middle English thakken, thakke (“to dab; to pat; to stroke”) [and other forms] (whence thack (obsolete except Britain, dialectal)), from Old English þaccian (“to beat; to pat; to touch softly, stroke; to strike gently, clap, tap”), from Proto-West Germanic *þakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *þakwōną (“to pat; to tap; to touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to grasp with the hand; to touch”). Doublet of tangent.
The noun and interjection are derived from the verb.
Cognates
* Latin tangō (“touch”)
* Old Dutch þakolōn (“to stroke”)
* Old Norse þykkr (“a blow, thump, thwack”) (Icelandic þjaka, þjökka (“to beat, thump, thwack”); Norwegian tjåka (“to strike, beat”))