thwack

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.

   “This carter thwacketh his horse upon the croup, / And they began to drawen and to stoop.”

2. fiil To drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting; to knock.

   “But let him ſvveare ſo, and he ſhall not ſtay, / VVee'l thvvack him hence vvith Diſtaffes.”

3. fiil To pack (people or things) closely together; to cram.

   “[W]hen hee comes to deſcribe the office of his imaginarie doctor [he] thvvacks fourteene Scriptures into the margent, vvhereof not any one hath any iuſt colour of inference to his purpoſe: […]”

4. fiil To decisively defeat (someone) in a contest; to beat, to thrash.

   “3 [Servingman] VVhy here's he that vvas vvont to thvvacke our Generall, Caius Martius. / 1 VVhy do you ſay, thvvacke our Generall? / 3 I do not ſay thvvacke our Generall, but he vvas alvvayes good enough for him.”

5. fiil To crowd or pack (a place or thing) with people, objects, etc.

   “And my lad Aſcanius with a Troian mantel adorning, / Weau'd woorks thwackt with honor, to her gifts this parlye ſhe lincketh.”

6. fiil To fall down hard with a thump.

   “And see, that urchin, ho-ieroe! / His truant legs they sink from under, / And to the quaking sheet below [i.e., ice on which he has been skating], / Down thwacks he, with a thud like thunder!”

7. fiil To be crammed or filled full.

   “[A]ll that vvere vvithin the audience of theſe vvords and dovvn the Church, vvhich vvas as full as it could thvvack in thick multitudes, gave a loud general applauſe.”

8. fiil Of people: to crowd or pack a place.

   “All the vviſe vvenches i'the Tovvn vvill thvvack to ſuch Sanctuaries, vvhen the times are troubleſome, and Troopers trace the ſtreets in terror.”

9. isim 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.

   “Noble Captain, Lend a reaſonable Thvvack, for the Love of God, vvith that Cane of yours, over theſe poor Shoulders.”

10. isim A dull or heavy slapping sound.

    “"It's a comfort they're most on'em females," he pursued, sounding a thwack on his knee as he settled himself agreeably in his seat.”

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

    “And then—Thwack! Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate, not head—clear across.”