A large number or amount of something.
She gave me a swack of books.
Synonym of smack.
To smack.
When Oscar charged the tyrant Loth, Their spears both in flinders flew; Syne swacked they swords in deidly wroth, But a churl behind King Oscar slew!
With a swack, to the point of touching.
Pulling away, Brennan felt his shin swack against Glass's shin, but Glass kept moving.
From Middle English swac (“weak”), possibly borrowed via Scots swack, ultimately from Old English *swæc (found in derivative swæcehēow (“weakmindedness, nonsense”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swak (“w...
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My eighteen holes was simply a long ride in a golfmobile, with me stopping far too many times to take a swack at the ball.
A bum or petty thief.
Jake explained it to her: “A swack started it, at the last show one night in Hoquiam,” he said. “I just happened to notice it, and so after that I've planted a couple of stagehands in the audience for Hen-Tooth's act every show, to start it again.
To consume with hearty enjoyment.
At any rate, motoring is not even as you were ”before the war, but a good deal further behind in many respects, buoyed up only by the enthusiasm of released automobilists and neomotorists swacking their fill of new post-war delights.
To labour; to exert an effort.
Morgan was out of sight as usual, swacking away in the engine room.