thwack

Plural: thwacks

Noun

a hard blow with a flat object
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.
A dull or heavy slapping sound.

Verb

Verb Forms: thwacked, thwacking, thwacks

To strike forcefully with something flat, making a sharp sound.
deliver a hard blow to
To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.
To drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting; to knock.
To pack (people or things) closely together; to cram.
To decisively defeat (someone) in a contest; to beat, to thrash.
To crowd or pack (a place or thing) with people, objects, etc.
To fall down hard with a thump.
To be crammed or filled full.
Of people: to crowd or pack a place.

Intj

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

Examples

He wanted to THWACK his opponent with a high-scoring word, but had poor tiles.

Origin / Etymology

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”))

Synonyms

smack, bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, bethwack, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt, calcitrate, dab, dash, dowse, fetch one a blow, flap, give toco, hammer, hit, impact, jerk, kick, knock, lunge, pat, patter, pelt, pink, poke, pound, pummel, punch, rap, slam, slap, smite, strike, swap, tap, thack, thrash, thump, thwack, thwomp, vapulate, whack, whip, yerk

Scrabble Score: 18

thwack: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
thwack: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
thwack: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

thwack: valid Words With Friends Word