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▪ I. flump, n. colloq.
[f. next.]
The action of ‘flumping’; the heavy dull sound so produced.
1790Grose Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), Flump, a fall. 1832J. H. Newman Lett. (1891) I. 288 The heavy flump, flump of the huge cloth which is meant to dry the deck. 1856Leisure Hour V. 430/2 Broken now and then by..the flump of a dictionary on the leather-covered tables. 1891Mrs. L. Adams Bonnie Kate II. vii. 196 Libbie sat down with a flump.
▪ II. flump, v. colloq.|flʌmp|
[onomatopœic; cf. dump, flop, plump, slump. Not in Johnson, or Webster 1864.]
1. intr. To fall or move heavily with a dull noise.
1816G. Colman Br. Grins, Mr. Champernowne viii, He..thought it not unwise To join in flumping down. 1823Moor Suffolk Words, A hawk flumps or flops on a bird. 1838Thackeray Yellowpl. Corr. ii, She [Mrs. Shum] flumps past me. 1861― in Cornh. Mag. June 649 A little Skye-terrier dog..whines, runs, jumps, flumps up on him.
2. trans. To set or throw down with a dump.
1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 182 Flumping himself down in the midst of a tuft of cowslips. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 49 Chairs were flumped down on the floor. 1866St. James's Mag. Oct. 345 She flumped herself down in the car.
b. To bump or strike (a saddle). In quot. absol.
1894Daily News 20 June 6/4 This is a very different thing from jerking and flumping in the canter.
3. The vb. stem used advb. With a flump.
1790Grose Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2) s.v., He came flump down. 1841T. T. T. Procelain Tower 103 He cut it midway through—part fell down flump. |