thumpn.

Brit.

/θʌmp/, U.S.

/θəmp/

Etymology: Goes with thump v.

a. ‘A hard heavy dead dull blow with something blunt’ (Johnson), as with a club or the fist; a heavy knock; also, the heavy sound of such a blow (not so dull as a thud). Also figurative.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thump

thump1552

pound1863

dowfart1864

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow > and dull

thump1552

bump1582

dousea1600

dousta1627

dub1837

duff1866

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bownce, noyse or thumpe, bombus, crepitus.

1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. B*.ii Thou y^t throwest the thunder thumps from Heauens hye, to Hell.

a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu2^v/1 Now your thumpe, A thing deriv'd first from your Hemp-beaters, Takes a mans wind away, most spitefully.

1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses 262 Down with a thump he falls upon his face.

1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 50. ⁋4 Their Thumps and Bruises might turn to account,..if they could beat each other into good Manners.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 357 Thump after thump resounds the constant flail.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 304 The unfortunate little victim..receiving sundry thumps on the head from both his parents.

1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 85 Heavy thumps sometimes heard before and during the action, in geyser-holes.

†b. to cry thump: to make a thumping sound; to thump. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > become non-resonant [verb (intransitive)] > non-resonant impact sound > thump

thump1565

to cry thump1602

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. F2 How can I hold my fist from crying thumpe ?

1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore iii. i. 117 Did you not heare something cry thump?

c. Repeated, expressing a series of thumps.

1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve iv. 15 The thump-thump and shriek-shriek Of the train.

1885 F. J. Fargus Slings & Arrows x. 193 The steady, monotonous thump, thump, thump of the engines.

1899 A. Werner Captain of Locusts 69 The thump-thump of the women's pestles pounding the maize in the grain-mortar.

d. adverbially: With a thump (also figurative).

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adverb] > non-resonant impact sound > thump

thump1840

1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus I. 56 Here Tacitus..bid him leave off his fulsome Preambles, and fall thump to the Business of the Impeachment.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine i Which..made his heart to go thump—thump! against his side.

2. spec.

a. A knocking or pounding of machinery arising from slackness at a joint where there is reciprocal motion.

b. In plural. A beating of the chest in the horse due to spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm, analogous to the hiccup in man.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses

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colt-evilc1460

affreyd?1523

cholera1566

crick1566

incording1566

leprosy1566

taint1566

eyesore1576

fistula1576

wrench1578

birth1600

garrot1600

stithy1600

stifling1601

stranglings1601

hungry evil1607

pose1607

crest-fall1609

pompardy1627

felteric1639

quick-scab1639

shingles1639

clap1684

sudden taking1688

bunches1706

flanks1706

strangles1706

chest-founderingc1720

body-founder1737

influenza1792

foundering1802

horse-sickness1822

stag-evil1823

strangullion1830

shivering1847

dourine1864

swamp fever1870

African horse sickness1874

horse-pox1884

African horse disease1888

wind-stroke1890

thump1891

leucoencephalitis1909

western equine encephalitis1933

stachybotryotoxicosis1945

rhinopneumonitis1957

1891 Special Rep. Dis. Horse (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 134 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (51st Congr., 2nd Session, House of Representatives Misc. Doc.130) XI Thumps—Spasm of the diaphragm... Thumps is produced by the same causes which produce congestion of the lungs.

3. In Yorkshire (esp. Halifax): a local festival; a feast, wake, etc. Thump Sunday n. the Sunday of the annual fair or festival week.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > annual parish festival

wake?c1225

revel1478

give ale1524

feast1559

tide1824

thump1884

the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > festival-time > specific festivals

saturnals1487

Saturnalia1538

wake-day1538

Thanksgiving Day1674

Garland Day1833

wake-week1870

wakes week1886

Thump Sunday1916

thanksgiving1930

Garland Sunday1933

Garland Friday1960

1884 Folk-lore Jrnl. 2 25 Last Halifax Thump, a teetotaller..was punished, according to custom, by the company laying him face downwards and beating him on the back of the body with a heated fire-shovel.

1916 J. Hartley Seets i' Yorks. & Lancs. ii. 19 It'll be five year sin come Halifax thump Sunday.

1930 Brit. Weekly 4 Sept. 448/4 A correspondent sends us a description of ‘Deanhead Thump Sunday’, the..annual musical festival.

1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. ii. 40 A prime minister must, and if he is a northerner usually does, understand the complex of Wakes Weeks and Feast Weeks, to say nothing of Longwood Thump.

Draft additions 1993

4. dialect (chiefly Lancashire). Used emphatically, as a euphemism for ‘hell’ (see hell n. and int. Phrases 3), in exclamations of strong disagreement, outrage, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > angry speech > expression of anger

thump1930

1930 E. Raymond Jesting Army i. i. 6 Do Ah care how long it takes us to get there? Do Ah? Thoomp! Ah never was a soldier, tha knows.

1963 New Society 22 Aug. 5/1 The Lancashire, ‘Did he thump!’ where thump is an emphasized negative becomes at this school, ‘did he knock!’ as in ‘Will you lend me two and a kick to get some fags?’..‘No, will I knock!’

1987 Melody Maker 15 Aug. 6 ‘What the thump have you done to your hair?’ exclaims Def Leppard's Phil Coleen.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

thumpv.

Brit.

/θʌmp/, U.S.

/θəmp/

Forms: Also 1500s thomp, 1500s–1600s thumpe.

Etymology: Only modern English (16th cent.); of echoic formation. Parallel echoic formations are East Frisian dump a knock, late Icelandic dumpa to thump, Swedish dialect dumpa to make a noise, dompa to thump. The earliest evidence of the word-group in English is in thumper n. 1. The following shows it as a mere imitation of a noise:a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) ii. 1379 Extra locum:Sed. Alarum! Alarum! Tro ro ro ro ro,..Thomp, thomp, thomp! Downe, downe, downe! To go, to go, to go! K. John. What a noyse is thys..without the dore is made?

a. transitive. To strike or beat heavily, as with the fist, a club, or any blunt instrument, producing a dead, dull, somewhat hard sound; also, without reference to the sound produced, to hammer, pound, knock forcibly. to thump a cushion, the pulpit, etc.: said of a preacher who uses violent gestures; cf. cushion-thumper n. at cushion n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike heavily > with dull sound

thump1548

dowf1825

thud1899

whump1974

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) at Incurso Pugnis aliquem incursare, to renne on one to thumpe and beate hym with his fystes.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Pertundo, to beate with hammers: to thumpe, or knocke.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 2 Thee pacient panting shee thumpt and launst wyth a fyrebolt.

a1635 R. Corbet On Great Tom of Christ-Church 1 Be dumbe ye infant Chimes, thumpe not your mettle.

1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 218 In thumping the pulpit..has frighted some from their seats.

1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 2 The sturdy Pavior thumps the Ground.

1725 B. Higgons Hist. & Crit. Remarks Burnet's Hist. 113 He [sc. Bp. Burnet] would..with greater Pleasure and Vehemence have thump'd a Cushion in that Congregation we now call a Conventicle.

1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 6 Chell vump tha.

1803 G. Colman John Bull iii. ii. 46 If he don't behave himself, I'll come in and thump him blue.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 62 There was he pinch'd and pitied, thump'd and fed.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) viii. 67 Don't you remember..how she was always thumping Louisa?

1907 Q. Rev. Apr. 393 It was left to the Navy League to thump the big drum.

1960 J. Rae Custard Boys ii. xii. 145 If you interrupt me again, Felix, I'll bloody well thump you.

1978 D. Devine Sunk without Trace xxi. 194 I saw red. If I didn't get out, I would thump him.

b. With complement: To drive or force (down, forward, off, out, etc., or into some position or condition) by thumping. Also, with out: to produce (a tune, beat, etc.) by thumping.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by impact or force > by striking or beating

smitec1330

swapa1375

inbeatc1420

possa1425

rushc1440

strike1450

ram1519

pash1530

thwack1566

whip1567

thump1596

lash1597

knocka1616

switcha1625

to knock down1653

to knock in1669

stave1837

whip1868

slog1884

to beat down-

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique

squeak1577

tinkle1582

divide1590

shake1611

slur1746

da capo1764

rattlea1766

to run over ——1789

skirl1818

spread?1822

develop1838

arpeggio1864

propose1864

recapitulate1873

jazz1915

lilt1916

jazzify1927

thump1929

schmaltz1936

belt1947

stroke1969

funkify1973

scratch1984

scratch-mix1985

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa4 He with his speare,..Would thumpe her forward, and inforce to goe.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xviii. 141 Thrice the feet the hands of Hector seized, And thrice th' Ajaces thumped him off.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (1623) iii. ii. 11 When my hart..Beats.., Then thus I thumpe it downe.

a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 104 To think..a slow body may be thumpt and driven into passion..how can we..entertain such suppositions?

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 4 Born to the flail and plough, To thump the corn out and to till the earth.

1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel xxiii. 315 She..thumped out popular tunes on a battered piano.

1974 C. Ryan Bridge too Far iii. i. 134 The bass drummer..thumped out a symbolic beat in Morse code: three dots and a dash—V for victory.

c. Of the feet, etc.: To beat or strike (the ground, etc.) heavily and noisily; also of a body: to impinge upon with a thump; to strike violently.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > with sound

thump1582

plonk1874

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > non-resonant sound [verb (transitive)] > non-resonant impact sound > thump

thump1582

flump1830

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Downe the pilot tumbleth..headlong. Thrise the grauel thumping.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. x. sig. Hh2^v A shrill pipe he playing heard on hight, And many feete fast thumping th'hollow ground.

1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 173 His tail would thump the floor most vigorously.

d. With that which beats, strikes, or knocks as object. to thump down, to put or throw down with a thump.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > with noise

clasha1637

thump1821

1720 A. Ramsay Wealth (new ed.) 5 While you may thump your Pows against the Wa.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel (1823) I. 9 And lumping knocks as one would thump a flail.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xvii. 173 Baggage, which he thumped down upon the floors.

e. To express by thumps.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > non-resonant sound [verb (transitive)] > non-resonant impact sound > thump > express by thumps

thump1928

1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Oct. 335/3 His [sc. a dog's] tail..thumped a welcome.

2. figurative. To ‘beat’ (in a fight), to drub, lick, thrash severely. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly

threshc1384

to knock the socks offa1529

thump1597

thrash1609

thwacka1616

capot1649

to beat to snuff1819

to knock into a cocked hat1830

to —— (the) hell out of1833

sledgehammer1834

rout1835

whop1836

skin1838

whip-saw1842

to knock (the) spots off1850

to make mincemeat of1853

to mop (up) the floor with1875

to beat pointless1877

to lick into fits1879

to take apart1880

to knock out1883

wax1884

contund1885

to give (a person) fits1885

to wipe the floor with1887

flatten1892

to knock (someone) for six1902

slaughter1903

slather1910

to hit for six1937

hammer1948

whomp1952

bulldozer1954

zilch1957

shred1966

tank1973

slam-dunk1975

beast1977

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 64 These bastard Brittains whom our fathers Haue in their own land beaten bobd and thumpt .

1802 G. Colman Broad Grins 40 In our Fifth Harry's reign, when 'twas the fashion To thump the French..to excess.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 14 Nov. (1941) 133 We have thumpd the Turks very well.

a. intransitive. To strike or beat with force or violence, with an abrupt dull noise; to knock or bump with force. Also to thump it.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > become non-resonant [verb (intransitive)] > non-resonant impact sound > thump

thump1565

to cry thump1602

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (intransitive)] > heavily > with dull sound

thump1565

whump1928

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Insulto Insultare fores calcibus, to thumpe or beate at the doore with heeles.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 202 Colon chusing out a stone, Levell'd so right, it thumpt upon His manly panch.

1679 Song in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta (new ed.) iii. i, in 50 Comedies & Trag. sig. T4/1 Drums beat, Ensigns wave, and Cannons thump it.

1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 340 That which melodiously ringeth in the Light, rumbleth and thumpeth in the dark.

1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. xiii. 181 I heard the boat thumping under the main channels.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. vii. 72 The..floe-ice against which we were alternately sliding and thumping.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Dec. 3/2 No one thinks a drummer-boy a giant because he thumps away upon a big drum.

b. To walk with heavy sounding steps, to stump noisily; also, of a thing, to move with thumps or noisy jolts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heavily

stamp1490

trample1530

tramp1570

stump1600

thump1604

clump1665

trape1706

pound1801

clamp1808

clomp1829

lump1861

tromp1892

stunt1901

stomp1919

1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. in Wks. (1885) VIII. 28 I thumped down stairs with my cowheel.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 378 Along..went the waggon, thumping and bumping up this hill and down that.

1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping 233 Long ropes..which thumped with wet swishes over the slippery decks.

1899 J. Lumsden Edinb. Poems & Songs 77 He thumpeth down the stony street.

c. Of the heart, etc.: To beat violently or audibly; to throb forcibly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > [verb (intransitive)] > types of pulsation

panta1500

leap1526

throb1542

vermiculate1706

flutter1714

wallop1766

thump1785

rise1819

race1853

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 47 Who patient stands till his feet throb, And his head thumps.

1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii Everybody's heart was thumping as hard as possible.

1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 282 Hearts heaved, heads thumped.

1880 R. Browning Retio in Dramatic Idyls 180 How my head throbs, how my heart thumps.

Compounds

The verb-stem in combination with a noun.

ˈthump-cushion n. a preacher who thumps the cushion of the pulpit; in quot. 1827 attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > boisterous, violent

Boanergesc1384

break-pulpit1589

thump-cushion1827

dustman1877

1827 G. Darley Sylvia 60 Grip him fast by his thump-cushion arm, lest he overdo the action.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	thump
释义	thumpn. Brit. /θʌmp/, U.S. /θəmp/ Etymology: Goes with thump v. 1. a. ‘A hard heavy dead dull blow with something blunt’ (Johnson), as with a club or the fist; a heavy knock; also, the heavy sound of such a blow (not so dull as a thud). Also figurative. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thump thump1552 pound1863 dowfart1864 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow > and dull thump1552 bump1582 dousea1600 dousta1627 dub1837 duff1866 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bownce, noyse or thumpe, bombus, crepitus. 1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. B.ii Thou y^t throwest the thunder thumps from Heauens hye, to Hell. a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour* iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu2^v/1 Now your thumpe, A thing deriv'd first from your Hemp-beaters, Takes a mans wind away, most spitefully. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses 262 Down with a thump he falls upon his face. 1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 50. ⁋4 Their Thumps and Bruises might turn to account,..if they could beat each other into good Manners. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 357 Thump after thump resounds the constant flail. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 304 The unfortunate little victim..receiving sundry thumps on the head from both his parents. 1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 85 Heavy thumps sometimes heard before and during the action, in geyser-holes. †b. to cry thump: to make a thumping sound; to thump. Obsolete. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > become non-resonant [verb (intransitive)] > non-resonant impact sound > thump thump1565 to cry thump1602 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. F2 How can I hold my fist from crying thumpe ? View more context for this quotation 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore iii. i. 117 Did you not heare something cry thump? c. Repeated, expressing a series of thumps. Π 1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve iv. 15 The thump-thump and shriek-shriek Of the train. 1885 F. J. Fargus Slings & Arrows x. 193 The steady, monotonous thump, thump, thump of the engines. 1899 A. Werner Captain of Locusts 69 The thump-thump of the women's pestles pounding the maize in the grain-mortar. d. adverbially: With a thump (also figurative). ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adverb] > non-resonant impact sound > thump thump1840 1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus I. 56 Here Tacitus..bid him leave off his fulsome Preambles, and fall thump to the Business of the Impeachment. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine i Which..made his heart to go thump—thump! against his side. 2. spec. a. A knocking or pounding of machinery arising from slackness at a joint where there is reciprocal motion. b. In plural. A beating of the chest in the horse due to spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm, analogous to the hiccup in man. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses trench?a1450 colt-evilc1460 affreyd?1523 cholera1566 crick1566 incording1566 leprosy1566 taint1566 eyesore1576 fistula1576 wrench1578 birth1600 garrot1600 stithy1600 stifling1601 stranglings1601 hungry evil1607 pose1607 crest-fall1609 pompardy1627 felteric1639 quick-scab1639 shingles1639 clap1684 sudden taking1688 bunches1706 flanks1706 strangles1706 chest-founderingc1720 body-founder1737 influenza1792 foundering1802 horse-sickness1822 stag-evil1823 strangullion1830 shivering1847 dourine1864 swamp fever1870 African horse sickness1874 horse-pox1884 African horse disease1888 wind-stroke1890 thump1891 leucoencephalitis1909 western equine encephalitis1933 stachybotryotoxicosis1945 rhinopneumonitis1957 1891 Special Rep. Dis. Horse (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 134 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (51st Congr., 2nd Session, House of Representatives Misc. Doc.130) XI Thumps—Spasm of the diaphragm... Thumps is produced by the same causes which produce congestion of the lungs. 3. In Yorkshire (esp. Halifax): a local festival; a feast, wake, etc. Thump Sunday n. the Sunday of the annual fair or festival week. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > annual parish festival wake?c1225 revel1478 give ale1524 feast1559 tide1824 thump1884 the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > festival-time > specific festivals saturnals1487 Saturnalia1538 wake-day1538 Thanksgiving Day1674 Garland Day1833 wake-week1870 wakes week1886 Thump Sunday1916 thanksgiving1930 Garland Sunday1933 Garland Friday1960 1884 Folk-lore Jrnl. 2 25 Last Halifax Thump, a teetotaller..was punished, according to custom, by the company laying him face downwards and beating him on the back of the body with a heated fire-shovel. 1916 J. Hartley Seets i' Yorks. & Lancs. ii. 19 It'll be five year sin come Halifax thump Sunday. 1930 Brit. Weekly 4 Sept. 448/4 A correspondent sends us a description of ‘Deanhead Thump Sunday’, the..annual musical festival. 1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. ii. 40 A prime minister must, and if he is a northerner usually does, understand the complex of Wakes Weeks and Feast Weeks, to say nothing of Longwood Thump. Draft additions 1993 4. dialect (chiefly Lancashire). Used emphatically, as a euphemism for ‘hell’ (see hell n. and int. Phrases 3), in exclamations of strong disagreement, outrage, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > angry speech > expression of anger thump1930 1930 E. Raymond Jesting Army i. i. 6 Do Ah care how long it takes us to get there? Do Ah? Thoomp! Ah never was a soldier, tha knows. 1963 New Society 22 Aug. 5/1 The Lancashire, ‘Did he thump!’ where thump is an emphasized negative becomes at this school, ‘did he knock!’ as in ‘Will you lend me two and a kick to get some fags?’..‘No, will I knock!’ 1987 Melody Maker 15 Aug. 6 ‘What the thump have you done to your hair?’ exclaims Def Leppard's Phil Coleen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). thumpv. Brit. /θʌmp/, U.S. /θəmp/ Forms: Also 1500s thomp, 1500s–1600s thumpe. Etymology: Only modern English (16th cent.); of echoic formation. Parallel echoic formations are East Frisian dump a knock, late Icelandic dumpa to thump, Swedish dialect dumpa to make a noise, dompa to thump. The earliest evidence of the word-group in English is in thumper n. 1. The following shows it as a mere imitation of a noise:a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) ii. 1379 Extra locum:Sed. Alarum! Alarum! Tro ro ro ro ro,..Thomp, thomp, thomp! Downe, downe, downe! To go, to go, to go! K. John. What a noyse is thys..without the dore is made? 1. a. transitive. To strike or beat heavily, as with the fist, a club, or any blunt instrument, producing a dead, dull, somewhat hard sound; also, without reference to the sound produced, to hammer, pound, knock forcibly. to thump a cushion, the pulpit, etc.: said of a preacher who uses violent gestures; cf. cushion-thumper n. at cushion n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike heavily > with dull sound thump1548 dowf1825 thud1899 whump1974 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) at Incurso Pugnis aliquem incursare, to renne on one to thumpe and beate hym with his fystes. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Pertundo, to beate with hammers: to thumpe, or knocke. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 2 Thee pacient panting shee thumpt and launst wyth a fyrebolt. a1635 R. Corbet On Great Tom of Christ-Church 1 Be dumbe ye infant Chimes, thumpe not your mettle. 1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 218 In thumping the pulpit..has frighted some from their seats. 1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 2 The sturdy Pavior thumps the Ground. 1725 B. Higgons Hist. & Crit. Remarks Burnet's Hist. 113 He [sc. Bp. Burnet] would..with greater Pleasure and Vehemence have thump'd a Cushion in that Congregation we now call a Conventicle. 1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 6 Chell vump tha. 1803 G. Colman John Bull iii. ii. 46 If he don't behave himself, I'll come in and thump him blue. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 62 There was he pinch'd and pitied, thump'd and fed. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) viii. 67 Don't you remember..how she was always thumping Louisa? 1907 Q. Rev. Apr. 393 It was left to the Navy League to thump the big drum. 1960 J. Rae Custard Boys ii. xii. 145 If you interrupt me again, Felix, I'll bloody well thump you. 1978 D. Devine Sunk without Trace xxi. 194 I saw red. If I didn't get out, I would thump him. b. With complement: To drive or force (down, forward, off, out, etc., or into some position or condition) by thumping. Also, with out: to produce (a tune, beat, etc.) by thumping. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by impact or force > by striking or beating smitec1330 swapa1375 inbeatc1420 possa1425 rushc1440 strike1450 ram1519 pash1530 thwack1566 whip1567 thump1596 lash1597 knocka1616 switcha1625 to knock down1653 to knock in1669 stave1837 whip1868 slog1884 to beat down- society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique squeak1577 tinkle1582 divide1590 shake1611 slur1746 da capo1764 rattlea1766 to run over ——1789 skirl1818 spread?1822 develop1838 arpeggio1864 propose1864 recapitulate1873 jazz1915 lilt1916 jazzify1927 thump1929 schmaltz1936 belt1947 stroke1969 funkify1973 scratch1984 scratch-mix1985 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa4 He with his speare,..Would thumpe her forward, and inforce to goe. View more context for this quotation ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xviii. 141 Thrice the feet the hands of Hector seized, And thrice th' Ajaces thumped him off. a1616 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (1623) iii. ii. 11 When my hart..Beats.., Then thus I thumpe it downe. a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 104 To think..a slow body may be thumpt and driven into passion..how can we..entertain such suppositions? 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 4 Born to the flail and plough, To thump the corn out and to till the earth. 1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel xxiii. 315 She..thumped out popular tunes on a battered piano. 1974 C. Ryan Bridge too Far iii. i. 134 The bass drummer..thumped out a symbolic beat in Morse code: three dots and a dash—V for victory. c. Of the feet, etc.: To beat or strike (the ground, etc.) heavily and noisily; also of a body: to impinge upon with a thump; to strike violently. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > with sound thump1582 plonk1874 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > non-resonant sound [verb (transitive)] > non-resonant impact sound > thump thump1582 flump1830 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Downe the pilot tumbleth..headlong. Thrise the grauel thumping. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. x. sig. Hh2^v A shrill pipe he playing heard on hight, And many feete fast thumping th'hollow ground. View more context for this quotation 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 173 His tail would thump the floor most vigorously. d. With that which beats, strikes, or knocks as object. to thump down, to put or throw down with a thump. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > with noise clasha1637 thump1821 1720 A. Ramsay Wealth (new ed.) 5 While you may thump your Pows against the Wa. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel (1823) I. 9 And lumping knocks as one would thump a flail. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xvii. 173 Baggage, which he thumped down upon the floors. e. To express by thumps. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > non-resonant sound [verb (transitive)] > non-resonant impact sound > thump > express by thumps thump1928 1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Oct. 335/3 His [sc. a dog's] tail..thumped a welcome. 2. figurative. To ‘beat’ (in a fight), to drub, lick, thrash severely. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly threshc1384 to knock the socks offa1529 thump1597 thrash1609 thwacka1616 capot1649 to beat to snuff1819 to knock into a cocked hat1830 to —— (the) hell out of1833 sledgehammer1834 rout1835 whop1836 skin1838 whip-saw1842 to knock (the) spots off1850 to make mincemeat of1853 to mop (up) the floor with1875 to beat pointless1877 to lick into fits1879 to take apart1880 to knock out1883 wax1884 contund1885 to give (a person) fits1885 to wipe the floor with1887 flatten1892 to knock (someone) for six1902 slaughter1903 slather1910 to hit for six1937 hammer1948 whomp1952 bulldozer1954 zilch1957 shred1966 tank1973 slam-dunk1975 beast1977 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 64 These bastard Brittains whom our fathers Haue in their own land beaten bobd and thumpt . View more context for this quotation 1802 G. Colman Broad Grins 40 In our Fifth Harry's reign, when 'twas the fashion To thump the French..to excess. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 14 Nov. (1941) 133 We have thumpd the Turks very well. 3. a. intransitive. To strike or beat with force or violence, with an abrupt dull noise; to knock or bump with force. Also to thump it. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > become non-resonant [verb (intransitive)] > non-resonant impact sound > thump thump1565 to cry thump1602 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (intransitive)] > heavily > with dull sound thump1565 whump1928 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Insulto Insultare fores calcibus, to thumpe or beate at the doore with heeles. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 202 Colon chusing out a stone, Levell'd so right, it thumpt upon His manly panch. 1679 Song in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta (new ed.) iii. i, in 50 Comedies & Trag. sig. T4/1 Drums beat, Ensigns wave, and Cannons thump it. 1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 340 That which melodiously ringeth in the Light, rumbleth and thumpeth in the dark. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. xiii. 181 I heard the boat thumping under the main channels. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. vii. 72 The..floe-ice against which we were alternately sliding and thumping. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Dec. 3/2 No one thinks a drummer-boy a giant because he thumps away upon a big drum. b. To walk with heavy sounding steps, to stump noisily; also, of a thing, to move with thumps or noisy jolts. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heavily stamp1490 trample1530 tramp1570 stump1600 thump1604 clump1665 trape1706 pound1801 clamp1808 clomp1829 lump1861 tromp1892 stunt1901 stomp1919 1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. in Wks. (1885) VIII. 28 I thumped down stairs with my cowheel. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 378 Along..went the waggon, thumping and bumping up this hill and down that. 1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping 233 Long ropes..which thumped with wet swishes over the slippery decks. 1899 J. Lumsden Edinb. Poems & Songs 77 He thumpeth down the stony street. c. Of the heart, etc.: To beat violently or audibly; to throb forcibly. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > [verb (intransitive)] > types of pulsation panta1500 leap1526 throb1542 vermiculate1706 flutter1714 wallop1766 thump1785 rise1819 race1853 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 47 Who patient stands till his feet throb, And his head thumps. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii Everybody's heart was thumping as hard as possible. 1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 282 Hearts heaved, heads thumped. 1880 R. Browning Retio in Dramatic Idyls 180 How my head throbs, how my heart thumps. Compounds The verb-stem in combination with a noun. ˈthump-cushion n. a preacher who thumps the cushion of the pulpit; in quot. 1827 attributive. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > boisterous, violent Boanergesc1384 break-pulpit1589 thump-cushion1827 dustman1877 1827 G. Darley Sylvia 60 Grip him fast by his thump-cushion arm, lest he overdo the action. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1552v.1548
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