Meaning

2 senses

  1. (dialectal, transitive)To strike or thump (someone or something); to thwack.

  2. To cover a roof with thack.

Origin

From Middle English thakken (“to stroke”), from Old English þaccian (“to touch gently, str

From Middle English thakken (“to stroke”), from Old English þaccian (“to touch gently, stroke, tap”), from Proto-West Germanic *þakwōn, from Proto-Germanic *þakwōną (“to touch lightly”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to touch”).

From Middle English thak, thakk, thakke, from Old English þæc, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.

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Forms

thacks, thacking, thacked, thacked
Base formthack · to thack
3rd person singularthacks
Present participlethacking
Past simplethacked
Past participlethacked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theythack
he, she, itthacks

Past simpleLesson

all personsthacked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave thacked
he, she, ithas thacked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill thack

Word family

1 related words
Derivedthacker

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

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