| 释义 |
wumph|wʌmf, wʊmf|
[Echoic; cf. whoomph int. and whump n. (and int.).]
A sudden deep sound, as of the impact of a soft, heavy object.
1913Daily News & Leader 15 Aug. 5, I was ashamed of the heavy ‘wumph’ with which I landed on the other side amid the nettles. 1924Glasgow Herald 20 Dec. 4/2 The female [bittern]..sometimes answers back with a subdued but exciting ‘wumph’. 1967Punch 3 May 640/1 The whiplash crack from the shock wave of the small fighters we were flying is no guide to the wumph of an airliner weighing up to 300 tons. 1971‘A. Diment’ Think Inc. viii. 141 A deep wumph as the fuel oil..caught fire. |