单词 | whump |
释义 | whumpn.int. A dull thudding sound, as of a body landing heavily. Also int. Cf. whomp n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > non-resonant sound [interjection] > thud thud1880 plonk1903 whump1915 bonk1929 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thud daud1596 sosh1687 soss1718 devel1787 dump1820 thud1825 duff1859 pob1871 thrump1871 clump1891 plonk1903 plodding1905 plup1911 wumph1913 whump1915 whomp1926 whumping1928 clonking1930 bonk1933 bonking1944 thuck1948 doof1989 1915 D. O. Barnett Let. 6 May in In Happy Memory 130 Then there was a wump over beyond, and a young howitzer shell went zip over my trench. 1922 Chambers'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. 1926 J. Galsworthy 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. 1930 C. R. Samson Fights & Flights ii. iv. 181 ‘Wump’ fell a second bomb. 1967 Boston Herald 1 Apr. 20/2 (caption) Whump! 1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 106/2 I heard this funny sound: a kind of whummpp. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). whumpv. 1. intransitive. To make a dull thudding sound; to move with a ‘whump’; to bang or thump; to strike (with a thud). 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 > thud soss1789 thud1796 flump1816 whump1897 phut1901 bonk1929 whunk1935 clonk1963 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 1897 E. Terry Let. 5 Feb. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 126 Not a single speech do I know yet, and my head is thumping and wumping. 1928 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 5/1 The look-out sentry..whumped twice, briskly, on his hand-gong. 1939 Life 11 Dec. 26 Taft of Ohio sturdily whumped at the New Deal's ‘insane deficit policy’. 1981 B. Granger Schism xi. 89 The windshield wipers whumped, whumped slowly across the streaky glass. 2. transitive. To strike heavily or with a ‘whump’. 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 1974 D. E. Westlake Help (1975) iii. 20 I would then adjust the rubber stamp.., wump it onto the stamp pad, wump it onto the envelope. 1976 National 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. Derivatives ˈwhumping n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thud daud1596 sosh1687 soss1718 devel1787 dump1820 thud1825 duff1859 pob1871 thrump1871 clump1891 plonk1903 plodding1905 plup1911 wumph1913 whump1915 whomp1926 whumping1928 clonking1930 bonk1933 bonking1944 thuck1948 doof1989 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > non-resonant impact sound > thud dunting1683 thuddinga1813 whumping1928 clonking1930 plonking1977 1928 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 2/2 The occasional whumping and booming of war-gongs. 1977 P. Dickinson Walking Dead ii. viii. 206 There was a slow, wumping explosion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.int.1915v.1897 |
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