thudn.
/θʌd/, U.S. /θəd/, Scottish English /θʌd/ Originally Scottish.
1. † b. A loud sound, as of a clap of thunder, or the discharge of a cannon. Scottish. Obsolete.
a. A blast of wind or tempest; a gust; a squall. (In later quots. including the notion of sound.) Scottish.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of
ghosteOE
blasta1000
blas?c1225
ragec1405
blorec1440
flaw1513
thud1513
flaga1522
fuddera1522
flake1555
flan1572
whid?1590
flirta1592
gust1594
berry1598
wind-catch1610
snuff1613
stress1625
flash1653
blow1655
fresh1662
scud1694
flurry1698
gush1704
flam1711
waff1727
flawer1737
Roger's Blasta1825
flaff1827
slat1840
scart1861
rodges-blast1879
huffle1889
slap1890
slammer1891
Sir Roger1893
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. i. 80 Aiax breist persit..Scho [Pallas] with a thuid [L. turbine] stikkit on ane scharp roike [= rock].
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. viii. xx. f. 108v/1 Quhen haistelie come sic ane thud of wynd..yat sail mast and taikillis wer blawin in the brym seis.
1606 W. Arthur & H. Charteris Rollock's Lect. 1st & 2nd Epist. Paul to Thessalonians (1 Thess.) x. 121 All this worlde is full of tentations: the diuell blowes,..raising a storme: it is a stormie world, and all the thuds light on the sillie creature.
1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. ii The air grew ruch with bousteous thuds.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) ‘The wind comes in thuds’ when it comes in gusts; and especially when it strikes on any body that conveys the sound, as a door, &c.
1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 30 Wud as tempest thud.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [noun]
peal1535
thud1535
bouncing1598
ran-tan1607
sulphur?1611
bursta1616
stound1627
randana1661
break1751
flare1815
slam-banging1823
bang1854
spang1883
whoomph1891
ka-boom1965
zap1984
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 384 Thair scheildis rave and all thair speiris brak, With sic ane thude evin lyke ane thunder crak.
a1586 in Pinkerton Anc. Scot. Poems (1786) 246 Hir voice sa rank..Most lyik the thundring thuds of canoun din.
1796 H. Macneill Waes o' War iii. 21 Loud the din o' streams fast fa'ing, Strak the ear wi' thundering thud.
2. A heavy blow; a thump with the fist. Also figurative a severe affliction, a ‘blow’. Scottish and northern dialect.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow
smitea1200
ponder1339
clouta1400
whopc1440
routa1450
maul1481
sousec1500
dunta1522
flake1559
lambskin1573
lamback1592
daud1596
baster1600
mell1658
thumper1682
lounder1723
smash1725
plumper1756
spanker1772
douser1782
thud1787
bash1805
stave1819
batter1823
belter1823
wallop1823
whacker1823
belt1825
smasher1829
dingbat1843
dinger1845
oner1861
squeaker1877
clod1886
wham1923
dong1941
1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 26 Wi' an etnach cud, Than gae her Daddie sic a thud.
1790 D. Morison Poems 151 He cocks his hand and gi's his wife a thud.
1810 J. Cock Simple Strains 136 Lusty thuds were dealt about.
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. v. 109 ‘Noa!’, said Joseph, giving a thud with his prop on the floor.
1876 D. Gilmour Paisley Weavers ix. 91 Puir lass, it's a sair thud to thee.
3.
a. A dull heavy sound without resonance, such as is produced when a heavy stone strikes the ground. (Originally northern dialect.)
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thud
daud1596
sosh1687
soss1718
devel1787
dump1820
thud1825
duff1859
pob1871
thrump1871
clump1891
plonk1903
plodding1905
plup1911
wumph1913
whump1915
whomp1926
whumping1928
clonking1930
bonk1933
bonking1944
thuck1948
doof1989
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Thud, the noise of a fall, a stroke causing a blunt and hollow sound.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. iv. 92 Lisbeth heard the heavy ‘thud’ of a running footstep on the turf.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. x. 164 The thud thud of the eight-oar.
1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour I. xi. 159 The heavy thud of the steam-hammer.
1895 ‘C. Holland’ My Japanese Wife (ed. 11) 13 The sound of a mousmé pattering barefoot, her quick, short steps making a gentle thud, thud on the matting.
b. As interjection or adverb: With a thud.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > non-resonant sound [interjection] > thud
thud1880
plonk1903
whump1915
bonk1929
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
1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 197 We heard an apple fall..thud on the sward.
1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 71 Bill shot again and the ball went ‘thud!’ into the bear.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† thudv.1
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To strike or thrust with a weapon; to stab. Only in Old English.
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c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xl. 294 Ða ðydde [L. percussit] Abner hiene mid hindewearde sceafte on ðæt smælðearme ðæt he wæs dead.
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xl. 296 Ðæt mon mid hindewearde sceafte ðone ðydde [L. ferire est] þe him oferfylge.
c1000 Ælfric Judges iii. 21 Þa abræd Aoth..his swurd..and hine hetelice þidde, swa þæt þa hiltan eodon in to þam innoðe.
2. To thrust, press, push (a thing to or into a place, etc.). Also figurative.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > forcibly, firmly, or quickly
thudc1000
throwa1250
pilt?c1250
casta1300
pusha1350
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paltc1390
thrusta1400
thack1542
clap1559
to throw on1560
planch1575
protrude1638
shove1807
bung1825
shoot1833
slap1836
plunk1866
slam1870
spank1880
c1000 Ælfric Numbers xxii. 25 Se assa..þidde his hlafordes fot þearle to þam hege.
a1225 St. Marher. 14 Ant þenne þudde ich in ham luueliche þohtes.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4568 Moni hundred þusend þe iþud [c1300 Otho igliden] beoð to hellen.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 950 Geomagog..þudde [c1300 Otho þraste] Corineum. frommard his breoste.
1400 in Ancestor (1904) July 19 And anon as i be ded thud me in the erthe.
3. intransitive. To press with force.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press, squeeze, or pinch [verb (intransitive)]
thuda1225
pend?a1475
nipa1500
squeeze1692
squidge1881
mash1903
a1225 St. Marher. 12 Þa þudde ha uppon þe þurs feste wið hire fot.
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thudv.2
/θʌd/, U.S. /θəd/, Scottish English /θʌd/ Originally Scottish.
1.
a. intransitive. To come with a blast or gust, as the wind; sometimes including the notion of sound. Scottish.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow fitfully > in gusts
wapc1400
thud1513
flaw1806
to gust up1813
tuck1833
huffle1862
the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > heavily > with dull sound
thud1796
dump1832
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
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. vi. 136 As the blastis with thar bustuus sovn..cumis thuddand doun On the deip sey Egean.
1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 223 Throw cluddis so he thuddis so And flew I wist not quhair.
1721 A. Ramsay Ode to Ph—— vi Then upo' sight the hailstains thud.
1796 H. Macneill Waes o' War i. 8 Loud and sair the cauld winds thud.
b. transitive in causal sense: To drive in blasts. Scottish.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (a blast) (of the wind [verb (transitive)] > drive (clouds, rain, etc.)
thud1728
1728 A. Ramsay Answer to Somerville 59 Boreas nae mair thuds Hail, snaw, and sleet, frae blacken'd clouds.
2.
a. intransitive. To produce a thud or dull heavy sound, as a falling or moving body by striking against something; to fall or impinge with a thud; also said of the body or surface struck.
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a1813 [see thudding n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1833 [see thudding n. and adj. at Derivatives].
1859 L. Oliphant Narr. Earl of Elgin's Mission China & Japan I. 127 Feeble rockets, barbed as arrows, thudded about and fizzed for a moment in the grass.
1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon III. v. 120 The carriage came thudding by on the soft turf.
1885 Ld. Tennyson Balin & Balan 316 He felt the hollow-beaten mosses thud And tremble.
1893 Harper's Mag. Jan. 247/1 They heard his feet thudding upon the stairs.
1908 H. Wales Old Allegiance (ed. 2) xvii. 305 A bullet thudded into the wall above me.
b. transitive. To strike (something) so as to produce a thud.
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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 > thud
thud1899
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike heavily > with dull sound
thump1548
dowf1825
thud1899
whump1974
1899 J. Lumsden Edinb. Poems & Songs 259 Blow all your trumps! thud all your drums!
Derivatives
ˈthudding n. and adj. (in sense 2).
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily
thumping?1577
thuddinga1813
twatting1963
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > non-resonant impact sound > thud
dunting1683
thuddinga1813
whumping1928
clonking1930
plonking1977
a1813 A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 66 Cease, thou flighterin' thuddin' heart.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. i. 39 A puff of white smoke, then another,..followed by thudding reports.
1901 Remin. Dollar Acad. 87 A brilliant peroration accompanied by a thudding on the pulpit.
ˈthuddingly adv. also figurative (in sense 2).
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in wearisome or tedious manner > extremely
thuddingly1904
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
1904 ‘M. Corelli’ God's Good Man x The quick gallop of hoofs echoed thuddingly on the velvety turf.
1976 Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 10/5 The man who shot her, incidentally, is called Lord Lichfield—just one of the names dropped thuddingly at every opportunity.
1979 Daily Tel. 18 July 16/3 ‘Human stories’..even more thuddingly boring than the well-boiled cabbage-slabs of opinion.
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