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thock

thock interjection: a clear, echoing thud, as of an axe chopping wood.

Interjection

  1. A clear, echoing thud, as of an axe chopping wood.
    • Despite the construction of muffling sheds and sound barriers, the report has continued largely without interruption — thock, thock, thock-thock, thock.2007 April 7, Andy Newman, “City Islanders Ponder Future Without Gunfire Across Bay”, in New York Times

Noun

thock (plural thocks)

  1. A clear, echoing thud, as of an axe chopping wood or the keys of a mechanical keyboard.

Verb

thock (third-person singular simple present thocks, present participle thocking, simple past and past participle thocked)

  1. To make, or cause to make, a thock sound.
    • The tennis player thocked her racquet on the ground in annoyance.

Forms of thock

Noun
pluralthocks
Verb
third-person singular presentthocks
present participlethocking
past participlethocked
pastthocked

Origin of thock

Onomatopoeic.

Words formed from thock

Questions about thock

What does thock mean?
Thock means a clear, echoing thud, as of an axe chopping wood.
What part of speech is thock?
Thock can be an interjection, a noun or a verb.

Words near thock in the dictionary

  1. thobbed
  2. thobbing
  3. thobe
  4. thobes
  5. thobs
  6. thock
  7. thocked
  8. thocking
  9. thocks
  10. Thode
  11. Thodes

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