flump
/flʌmp
/verb [no object, with adverbial of direction]
Fall or sit down heavily: I flumped back into bed...
- Jepta sat across from her and Mikhail pulled up a chair, flumping down onto it and facing Navi as best he could, the glare still in his eyes.
- Emma flumped into a chair at her kitchen counter.
- Julia sighed and flumped on her bed, gathering her knees up to her chin.
noun [in singular]
The action or sound of a heavy fall: the rocks hit the ground with a flump...
- There was a loud flump as a collection of letters landed on the doormat.
- With a soft flump, I flopped on my own bed and yawned.
- She heard a soft flump as Danny's arm dropped on to the bed, and she sighed, knowing what he was going to say next.
Origin
Early 17th century: imitative.
Rhymes
- Anabaptist
- anabasis
- anabatic
- anabiosis
- anabiotic
- anabolic
- anabolic steroid
- anabolism
- anabranch
- an accident waiting to happen
- an ace up one's sleeve (or in the hole)
- anachronic
- anachronism
- anachronistic
- anachronistically
- anacidity
- anaclitic
- anacoluthic
- anacoluthon
- anaconda
- an acquired taste
- Anacreon
- anacreontic
- anacronym
- anacrusis