单词 | flump |
释义 | flumpn. colloquial. The action of ‘flumping’; the heavy dull sound so produced. ΚΠ 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. colloquial. 1. intransitive. To fall or move heavily with a dull noise. 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1790v.1790 |
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