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Thwack vs Thack - What's the difference?

thwack | thack |

As nouns the difference between thwack and thack

is that thwack is the act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement while thack is a stroke; a thwack.

As verbs the difference between thwack and thack

is that thwack is to whack or hit with a flat implement while thack is to strike; thump; thwack.

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)

    thack

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike; thump; thwack.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) thacce, from . See above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stroke; a thwack.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . See also thatch.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often thatch specifically
  • * 1952 , L.F. Salzman, Building in England , p. 223.
    • This outer layer was generically known as 'thack', but, owing to the fact that the vast majority of buildings in early times were covered with a thacking of straw or some similar material, 'thatch' gradually acquired its modern restricted significance of straw, or reed, heling.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover a roof with thack.

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