▪ I. thwacking, vbl. n.
(ˈθwækɪŋ)
[f. thwack v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb thwack in various senses. Also attrib.: thwacking-frame, a stand on which pantiles are beaten into shape; thwacking-horse, -stool, a bench on which the thwacking-frame is placed; thwacking-knife, a knife for trimming the edges of pantiles.
| 1736 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. 1, A thwacking, verberatio, fustuarium, fustigatio. 1760 Mair Tyro's Dict. (1820) 372 Stipatio,..a cramming or thwacking of things together. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 107 We heard a distant thwacking sound,..the rolling pin, struck upon the dresser by the cook. 1867 Thwacking frame [see thwacker 1]. 1895 Zangwill Master iii. ix, The thwacking of the dancers' feet in the barn. |
▪ II. thwacking, ppl. a.
(ˈθwækɪŋ)
[f. thwack v. + -ing2.]
That thwacks; that is a thwacker; big, strong, forcible; thumping, whacking.
| 1567 Drant Horace, De Arte Poet. A iij, Put out no puffes, nor thwackyng words, words of to large assyce. 1620 Middleton Chaste Maid v. iii, Sec. Serv. A bonfire, Sir? Sir Oliver. A thwacking one, I charge you. 1671 H. Foulis Hist. Rom. Treas. (1681) 42 After all these thwacking Arguments. 1682 H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 191 In vertue of which thwacking expressions he has fancied himself able to play at Scholastick or Philosophick Quarter-Staff. 1890 Daily News 17 Dec. 5/7 Then..came a thwacking blow from Dr. Tanner's blackthorn. |
Hence ˈthwackingly adv.
| 1660 H. More Myst. Godl. vi. xvii. 270 In riveting the Godhead into his own person so thwackingly and substantially, as that he may give the World to understand that he was as much God as that Christ that died at Jerusalem. |