thwack

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: thwăk
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /θwæk/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -æk
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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”))

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: plätsis — used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped
• Finnish: tömpsis — used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped
• Vietnamese: huỵch — used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped
• Arabic: كف (kaff) — act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick — see also whack
• Bulgarian: силен удар (silen udar) — act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick — see also whack
• Finnish: läimäys — act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick — see also whack
• Macedonian: у́дар (údar) — act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick — see also whack
• Spanish: chingadazo — act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick — see also whack
• Finnish: rojahdus — dull or heavy slapping sound
• German: Knall — dull or heavy slapping sound
• Macedonian: тре́сок (trésok) — dull or heavy slapping sound
• Macedonian: тре́скот (tréskot) — dull or heavy slapping sound
• Bulgarian: бия жестоко (bija žestoko) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Bulgarian: ха́кам (hákam) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Bulgarian: ха́кна (hákna) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Bulgarian: пле́щя (pléštja) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Bulgarian: плющя́ (pljuštjá) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Bulgarian: плю́щя (pljúštja) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Bulgarian: пу́хам (púham) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Bulgarian: пу́хна (púhna) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Bulgarian: ре́пам (répam) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Bulgarian: ре́пна (répna) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Finnish: läimäyttää — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• French: tabasser — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Galician: bater — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Galician: bourar — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Galician: brear — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Galician: carmear — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Galician: zoscar — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Galician: zoupar — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Galician: zurrar — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• German: schlagen — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• German: verprügeln — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Greek: κοπανίζω (kopanízo) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Macedonian: тре́сне (trésne) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Macedonian: у́дри (údri) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Macedonian: пле́сне (plésne) — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Polish: praskać — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Polish: prasknąć — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Polish: prasnąć — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Romanian: plesni — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Serbo-Croatian: мла̏тнути — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Serbo-Croatian: опа́лити — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Serbo-Croatian: тре̏снути — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Serbo-Croatian: mlȁtnuti — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Serbo-Croatian: opáliti — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Serbo-Croatian: trȅsnuti — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Spanish: arrimar — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Spanish: fajar — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Spanish: hostiar — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Swedish: smälla — to hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick
• Finnish: paiskata — to drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting
• Macedonian: тре́сне (trésne) — to drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting
• Serbo-Croatian: тре̏снути — to drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting
• Serbo-Croatian: trȅsnuti — to drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting
• Finnish: rojahtaa — to fall down hard with a thump
• Finnish: läjähtää — to fall down hard with a thump
• Macedonian: пле́сне (plésne) — to fall down hard with a thump
• Macedonian: тре́сне (trésne) — to fall down hard with a thump
• Serbo-Croatian: тре̏снути — to fall down hard with a thump
• Serbo-Croatian: trȅsnuti — to fall down hard with a thump