Wharf vs Whack - What's the difference?
wharf | whack |
A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
* Bancroft
* Tennyson
The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
* Shakespeare
A blow, impact or slap.
A share or portion.
* 1951 , , Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922 ,
An attempt.
To hit, slap or strike.
* G. W. Cable
(slang) To kill, bump off.
To share or parcel out.
(label) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
* 2012 , Ryan Pyette,
To surpass; to better.
* 2012 , Steve Cullen,
As nouns the difference between wharf and whack
is that wharf is a man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank while whack is a blow, impact or slap.As a verb whack is
to hit, slap or strike.wharf
English
(wikipedia wharf)Noun
(en-noun)- Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.
- Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame.
- the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf
Synonyms
* (landing place) dock; quayHyponyms
* (landing place) jetty; pier; staithe, staith (Northern England)Derived terms
* wharfage * wharfie * wharf rat * wharfingerSee also
* dock English nouns with irregular pluralswhack
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Verb
(en verb)- Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
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.
Total Flyfisher:
- Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!