thwap
English
Etymology
Imitative.
Interjection
thwap
- The sound of a heavy smack.
- 2007 December 2, Stephanie Zacharek, “Mad”, in New York Times:
- THE COMPLETELY MAD DON MARTIN, a two-volume honker that includes every drawing Martin ever published in the magazine, answers the question with a definitive thwap: Martin's cartoons are still weird.
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Verb
thwap (third-person singular simple present thwaps, present participle thwapping, simple past and past participle thwapped)
- To make, or cause to make, a heavy smacking sound.
- 2004, Anthony Doerr, About Grace, page 241:
- Reflectors in the road thwapped beneath the tires, setting a regular, almost reassuring pace.
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