Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]
1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym;John Arbuthnot], “The Rest of Nic’s Fetches to Keep John out of Ecclesdoun-Castle”, in Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit.[…], London:[…]John Morphew,[…], →OCLC, page 32:
VVith that Nic bounc'd up vvith a Spring equal to that of one of your nimbleſt Tumblers or Rope dancers, falls foul upon John Bull to ſnatch the Cudgel he had in his Hand, that he might ThvvackLevvis vvith it.
I had finished my toilet, and was loitering with Frank Bracebridge in the library, when we heard a distant thwacking sound, which he informed me was a signal for the serving up of the dinner.
An adjective use.
1856, Joseph Cartwright, Philpot Street: Or, The Infidels of Stepney.[…], London:[…] G. Rymer,[…]; and published by C. Kerbey,[…], →OCLC, page 9:
Now, great logician! nothings enemy!/ Who thwacketh nothing, and its numerous fry / Of little nothings, and the nothings grown;/ The fog-lost nothings; and the nothings known.
1881, Walter Besant, James Rice, “How Kitty First Saw the Doctor”, in The Chaplain of the Fleet[…], volume I, London:Chatto and Windus,[…], →OCLC, part I (Within the Rules), page 82:
[F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.
1610, Jos[eph] Hall, “Section V. The Antiquity and Examples of Separation.”, in A Common Apologie of the Church of England: Against the Uniust Challenges of the Ouer-iust Sect, Commonly Called Brownists.[…], London:[…][William Stansby] for Samuel Macham,[…], →OCLC, page 14:
[W]hen hee comes to deſcribe the office of his imaginarie doctor [he]thvvacks fourteene Scriptures into the margent, vvhereof not any one hath any iuſt colour of inference to his purpoſe:[…]
[W]ho vvould have thought a man could have thvvackt together ſo many incongruous ſimilitudes, had it not been to defend the motley i[n]coherence of a patch'd Miſſall?
3[Servingman] VVhy here's he that vvas vvont to thvvacke our Generall, Caius Martius. /1 VVhy do you ſay, thvvacke our Generall?/3 I do not ſay thvvacke our Generall, but he vvas alvvayes good enough for him.
[W]hat adventurous knight ever thought of the lady's terror, when he went to thwack giant, dragon, or magician, in her presence, and for her deliverance?
And see, that urchin, ho-ieroe!/ His truant legs they sink from under, / And to the quaking sheet below [i.e., ice on which he has been skating], / Down thwacks he, with a thud like thunder!
1650, Alexander Giraffi [i.e., Alessandro Giraffi], “Saturday the 13. of Iuly, 1647. The Seventh Day.”, in James Howell, transl., An Exact Historie of the Late Revolutions in Naples;[…], London:[…] R. A. for R[ichard] Lowndes, →OCLC, pages 157–158:
[A]ll that vvere vvithin the audience of theſe vvords and dovvn the Church, vvhich vvas as full as it could thvvack in thick multitudes, gave a loud general applauſe.
(obsolete,rare) Of people: to crowd or pack a place.
Him Ralph encountred, and straight grew / A fierce Dispute betwixt them two:/ Th'one arm'd with Metall, t'other with Wood;/ This fit for bruise, and that for Blood. / With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, / Hard Crab-tree and old Iron rang;/ While none that saw them could divine / To which side Conquest would encline:[…]
[H]e trudged rapidly up the steep avenue of the Alhambra, singing as he went, and now and then bestowing a hearty thwack with a cudgel on the flanks of his donkey, either by way of cadence to the song, or refreshment to the animal; for dry blows serve in lieu for provender in Spain, for all beasts of burden.
But he was stopped on the way by a portly sperm whale, that begged a few moments' confidential business with him. That business consisted in fetching the Commodore's craft such a thwack, that with all his pumps going he made straight for the nearest port to heave down and repair.
I had scrambled out of the coach, and was instinctively settling my cravat, when somebody brushed roughly by me, and I heard a smart thwack upon the coachman’s ear. […] And then came a second thwack, aimed at the driver's other ear, but which missed it, and hit him on the nose, causing a terrible effusion of blood.
Three watrie clowds ſhymring toe the craft they rampired hizzing, / Three whern's fierd gliſtring, with ſouthwynds rufflered huffling. / Now doe they rayſe gaſtly lightnings, now griſlye reboundings / Of ruffe raffe roaring, mens harts with terror agryſing. / With peale meale ramping, with thwick thwack ſturdilye thundring.