Thwack is a related term of cudgel.
As nouns the difference between thwack and cudgel
is that
thwack is the act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement while
cudgel is a short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
As verbs the difference between thwack and cudgel
is that
thwack is to whack or hit with a flat implement while
cudgel is to strike with a cudgel.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
thwack English
Noun
( en noun)
The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement.
A heavy slapping sound.
Verb
( en verb)
To whack or hit with a flat implement.
* Washington Irving
- a distant thwacking sound
To beat.
To fill to overflow.
- (Stanyhurst)
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cudgel English
Noun
( en noun)
A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
- The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates. The threat to swing glinted in his eye.
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
- Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
* Bunyan
- He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and falls to rating of them as if they were dogs.
Synonyms
* club
* singlestick
Verb
To strike with a cudgel.
- The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters, with his own beatstick no less.
* Shakespeare
- I would cudgel him like a dog if he would say so.
To exercise (one's wits or brains).
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