twock

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== twock (third-person singular simple present twocks, present participle twocking, simple past and past participle twocked) Alternative form of twoc. === Etymology 2 === Onomatopoeia. ==== Noun ==== twock (uncommon) The sharp, quick sound of one hard thing hitting another hard (or rubber or leather) thing, especially sports equipment such as a bat hitting a ball. 1977, New West, page NQ-2: Hordes of shadow people, adult and child, milled from one end of this yellowing old room to the other, stopping to hunch over assorted fantasy devices. The noise was stunning, a garble of mechanical exclamation, the twock twock of the air hockey games […] 2001, Andrea Pickens, A Diamond in the Rough, Signet Book (→ISBN) (a golf novel), page 34: The faint words trailed off to the soft twock of wood on leather. Philp squinted up at the slate gray clouds scudding in from the Bay. "Best we hurry if we mean to finish the last hole without a soaking, for there promises to be a spot of rain […] " (uncommon) A twang; the sharp, quick sound an arrow being shot (and a bowstring vibrating) or hitting something hard.