2. Verb. (third-person singular of thwack) ¹
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Definition of Thwacks
1. thwack [v] - See also: thwack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thwacks
Literary usage of Thwacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Novelist's Magazine (1782)
"thumps without feeing a foul, or be- * «¡ved a great many thwacks and * ing able to
... thwacks ..."
2. 595 Pulpit Pungencies: With a Table of Contents by Henry Ward Beecher (1866)
"... is to see Christians of different churches sharp as a sword, and running
thwacks at each other — to see, for instance, the Bap- . tists coming down upon ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1872)
"[thwacks him.] That a person three score and three would run about in a fool's
... [thwacks him.] Why, you impudent villain, do you think 111 suffer such an ..."
4. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society, British Soviet Friendship Society (1887)
"He told me he had standing orders for all the thwacks I sold him. ... My commission
merchant in Denver wrote me that my thwacks arrived in No. ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1898)
"He never did : he was ever sedate of deportment and flexible of ear, heroically
indifferent to my lavish chastisement, responsive only to the thwacks ..."
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