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▪ I. whump, v.|hwʌmp|
Also wump.
[f. as next.]
1. intr. To make a dull thudding sound; to move with a ‘whump’; to bang or thump; to strike (with a thud).
1897E. Terry Let. 5 Feb. in Ellen Terry & Shaw (1931) 126 Not a single speech do I know yet, and my head is thumping and wumping. 1928Blackw. Mag. Jan. 5/1 The look-out sentry..whumped twice, briskly, on his hand-gong. 1939Life 11 Dec. 26 Taft of Ohio sturdily whumped at the New Deal's ‘insane deficit policy’. 1981B. Granger Schism xi. 89 The windshield wipers whumped, whumped slowly across the streaky glass.
2. trans. To strike heavily or with a ‘whump’.
1974D. E. Westlake Help (1975) iii. 20, I would then adjust the rubber stamp.., wump it onto the stamp pad, wump it onto the envelope. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 24 Jan. 19/3 What had been lost at Waterloo and Sedan could be won back by whumping mud forts in the Sahel.
Hence ˈwhumping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1928Blackw. Mag. Jan. 2/2 The occasional whumping and booming of war-gongs. 1977P. Dickinson Walking Dead ii. viii. 206 There was a slow, wumping explosion.
▪ II. whump, n. (and int.)|hwʌmp|
Also wump.
[Echoic: cf. bump, thump, etc.]
A dull thudding sound, as of a body landing heavily. Also int. Cf. whomp.
1915D. O. Barnett Let. 6 May (1915) 130 Then there was a wump over beyond, and a young howitzer shell went zip over my trench. 1922Chambers's Jrnl. 7 Oct. 707/1 The globe suddenly swung in a long arc across some hidden gully in the bottom and fetched up with a stunning ‘wump’ on the slope of the other side. 1926Galsworthy Escape i. ii. 32 Still—up on the ladder and down with a whump—it hits 'em [sc. gentlemen] harder than it does the others. 1930C. R. Samson Fights & Flights ii. iv. 181 ‘Wump’ fell a second bomb. 1967Boston Herald 1 Apr. 20/2 (caption) Whump! 1976New Yorker 8 Mar. 106/2, I heard this funny sound: a kind of whummpp. |