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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English þaccian, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *þakwōną.
Verb
thakken
- To strike, to hit
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
folio xliiii, recto, column 2:
This carter thacked his horſe on yͤ croupe / And they begon to drawe and to ſtoupe- This carter thwacked is horse on the croup / And they began to draw and to stoop
Conjugation
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.