whump
/wʌmp
/ /wʊmp /noun
A dull or muffled thudding sound: the whump of a distant explosion...
- A muffled whump sounded and a streak left the launcher and struck the target.
- This was followed by a loud crash, a bang, a muffled whump, and then a blood-curdling scream that echoed around the waterfront before dying off into a pathetic moan and silence.
- One touch to the ground and Scarback beats his wings with a muffled whump and soars high, perhaps five feet into the air, as his opponent rises to meet him.
verb [no object, with adverbial]
1Make a whump: he pitched a snowball that whumped into the car...
- You hear both main tires pop as you whump to the ground short of the runway.
1.1 [with object] Strike (something) heavily with a whump: she began whumping him on his lower back...
- The kick on the third shot sent me stumbling back a step and I fell against the wooden railing, felt it give, and then before I had time to catch on, something big and hard and solid whumped the wind right out of me.
Origin
Late 19th century: imitative.
Rhymes
- white fisher
- white fishery
- white fishing
- white flag
- white flesher
- white flight
- white flour
- white-floured
- white flux
- whitefly
- white folk
- white folks
- whitefoot
- white-footed
- white-footed mouse
- whitefootism
- white fox
- White Friar
- whitefront
- white-fronted
- white-fronted goose
- white frost
- white fuel
- white game
- white gas