单词 | thwick-thwack |
释义 | † thwick-thwackn. Obsolete. The repetition or exchange of thwacks. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > repetition or exchange of blows thwick-thwack1575 1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Bijv With thwicke thwack, with thump thump, with bobbing and bum. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil Descr. Liparen in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 95 With peale meale ramping, with thwick thwack sturdelye thundring. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Torche Torche lorgue, words, like our thwicke thwacke, expressing a liberall and free dole of blowes. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 53 When a couple are newly married, the first moneth is honey-moon or smick smack: the second is, hither and thither: the third is, thwick thwack. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) i. at Thwack To lay on thwick, thwack, ictus geminare. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1575 |
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