flumpn.
/flʌmp/, U.S. /fləmp/ colloquial.
The action of ‘flumping’; the heavy dull sound so produced.
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1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Flump, a fall.
1832 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) I. 288 The heavy flump, flump of the huge cloth which is meant to dry the deck.
1856 Leisure Hour 5 430/2 Broken now and then by..the flump of a dictionary on the leather-covered tables.
1891 B. J. L. Adams Bonnie Kate II. vii. 196 Libbie sat down with a flump.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
flumpv.
/flʌmp/, U.S. /fləmp/ colloquial.
1. intransitive. To fall or move heavily with a dull noise.
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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
1816 G. Colman Eccentricities Edinb. 58 He..thought it not unwise To join in flumping down.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 131 A hawk flumps or flops on a bird.
1838 W. M. Thackeray Yellowplush Corr. ii She [Mrs. Shum] flumps past me.
1861 W. M. Thackeray in Cornhill Mag. June 649 A little Skye-terrier dog..whines, runs, jumps, flumps up on him.
2.
a. transitive. To set or throw down with a dump.
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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
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) IV. 182 Flumping himself down in the midst of a tuft of cowslips.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 118 Chairs were flumped down on the floor.
1866 St. James's Mag. Oct. 345 She flumped herself down in the car.
b. To bump or strike (a saddle). In quot. 1894 absol.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > bob up and down or strike the saddle
hod1786
flump1894
1894 Daily News 20 June 6/4 This is a very different thing from jerking and flumping in the canter.
3. The verb stem used adverbially With a flump.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adverb] > non-resonant impact sound > thud
soss1761
flump1790
thud1880
thuddingly1904
plonk1914
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) (at cited word) He came flump down.
1841 T. T. T. Porcelain Tower 103 He cut it midway through—part fell down flump.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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