thwacking
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]thwacking
- present participle and gerund of thwack
Noun
[edit]thwacking (plural thwackings)
- The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.
- 1907, W. Jenkyn Thomas, The Welsh Fairy Book:
- The next day he realised that, glorious as his hiding place was as an escape from books and thwackings, it had its disadvantages: the chief was that there was nothing to eat and drink, and that is a very serious thing for a growing boy […]