swacking

English

Verb

swacking

1. present participle and gerund of swack

Adjective

swacking (comparative more swacking, superlative most swacking)

1. (slang) Huge; whopping.
   • 1866, Arthur Locker, Sweet seventeen - Volume 3, page 249:

     He deserves a swacking bonus for persuading me to make my letter into pipe-lights.

   • 1923, Norman George Brett-James, The History of Mill Hill School, 1807-1923, page 125:

     When Arthur first did rule the land, He made a large pudding a ding ding, Great swacking plums he did put in, etc., etc.

   • 1986, Time - Volume 127, page 10:

     […] the human face, close up and cropped by the frame, a pearly or tanned mask of flat paint with schemantic shading, great swacking eyelashes and lipstick-colored lips.

2. Characteristic of a swack.
   • 1950, John Jennings, The Pepper Tree, page 188:

     There was a swacking sound of clubbed wood upon flesh;

   • 1967, Roger A. Caras, North American Mammals, page 265:

     If you are careless in your approach you will hear a great swacking sound echo through the trees and see a mighty spray of water — then all will be quiet.

   • 2001, Jake Logan, Railroad to Hell, page 4:

     "What went on? How come those two got killed?" demanded the burlier of the pair, tapping a nightstick across his palm with loud swacking sounds.