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Whack vs Wrack - What's the difference?

whack | wrack |

As nouns the difference between whack and wrack

is that whack is a blow, impact or slap while wrack is wreck.

As a verb whack

is to hit, slap or strike.

whack

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A blow, impact or slap.
  • A share or portion.
  • * 1951 , , Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922 ,
    • For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib. , tea, and plenty of good bread.
  • An attempt.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hit, slap or strike.
  • * G. W. Cable
    • Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
  • (slang) To kill, bump off.
  • To share or parcel out.
  • (label) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
  • * 2012 , Ryan Pyette, Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press:
    • The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.
  • To surpass; to better.
  • * 2012 , Steve Cullen, Total Flyfisher:
    • Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * out of whack * whack off * whack the illy * whacky English onomatopoeias

    wrack

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from a merger of (etyl) (m), .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, dialectal, or, literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
  • (archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
  • The remains; a wreck.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To execute vengeance; avenge.
  • To worry; tease; torment.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (and (etyl)) (m) (cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
  • Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus .
  • Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
  • A high flying cloud; a rack.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1892 , year_published=2011 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , title=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. }}
    Derived terms
    * channelled wrack * flat wrack * spiral wrack

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive ).
  • To cause to suffer pain, etc.

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