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thuck

thuck is the alternative form of thilk.

Meaning of thilk

Determiner

thilk

  1. (archaic, regional) That same; this; that.
    • I loue thilke laſſe, (alas why do I loue:) / And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne:) / Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue, / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarie. Aegloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 2, recto

Noun

thuck

  1. (dated, rare) The sound of a bullet or missile striking a target.

Questions about thuck

What does thuck mean?
Thuck means the sound of a bullet or missile striking a target.
What is thuck the alternative form of?
Thuck is the alternative form of thilk.
What part of speech is thuck?
Thuck is a noun.

Words near thuck in the dictionary

  1. thua nao
  2. Thuban
  3. thucholite
  4. thucholites
  5. thucholitic
  6. thuck
  7. Thucydidean
  8. Thucydideans
  9. Thucydides
  10. Thucydides trap
  11. Thucydides traps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thuck (page history and authors); thilk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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