swacking

Huge; whopping.

Adjective

  1. Huge; whopping.
    • He deserves a swacking bonus for persuading me to make my letter into pipe-lights. - 1866, Arthur Locker, Sweet seventeen - Volume 3, page 249:
    • When Arthur first did rule the land, He made a large pudding a ding ding, Great swacking plums he did put in, etc., etc. - 1923, Norman George Brett-James, The History of Mill Hill School, 1807-1923, page 125:
    • […] 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. - 1986, Time - Volume 127, page 10:
  2. Characteristic of a swack.
    • There was a swacking sound of clubbed wood upon flesh; - 1950, John Jennings, The Pepper Tree, page 188:
    • 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. - 1967, Roger A. Caras, North American Mammals, page 265:
    • "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. - 2001, Jake Logan, Railroad to Hell, page 4:

Forms

more swacking most swacking

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of swack