thumpn.
/θʌmp/, U.S. /θəmp/ 1. † b. to cry thump: to make a thumping sound; to thump. Obsolete.
a. ‘A hard heavy dead dull blow with something blunt’ (Johnson), as with a club or the fist; a heavy knock; also, the heavy sound of such a blow (not so dull as a thud). Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thump
thump1552
pound1863
dowfart1864
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow > and dull
thump1552
bump1582
dousea1600
dousta1627
dub1837
duff1866
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bownce, noyse or thumpe, bombus, crepitus.
1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. B*.ii Thou yt throwest the thunder thumps from Heauens hye, to Hell.
a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu2v/1 Now your thumpe, A thing deriv'd first from your Hemp-beaters, Takes a mans wind away, most spitefully.
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses 262 Down with a thump he falls upon his face.
1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 50. ⁋4 Their Thumps and Bruises might turn to account,..if they could beat each other into good Manners.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 357 Thump after thump resounds the constant flail.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 304 The unfortunate little victim..receiving sundry thumps on the head from both his parents.
1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 85 Heavy thumps sometimes heard before and during the action, in geyser-holes.
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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 > thump
thump1565
to cry thump1602
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. F2 How can I hold my fist from crying thumpe ? View more context for this quotation
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore iii. i. 117 Did you not heare something cry thump?
c. Repeated, expressing a series of thumps.
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1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve iv. 15 The thump-thump and shriek-shriek Of the train.
1885 F. J. Fargus Slings & Arrows x. 193 The steady, monotonous thump, thump, thump of the engines.
1899 A. Werner Captain of Locusts 69 The thump-thump of the women's pestles pounding the maize in the grain-mortar.
d. adverbially: With a thump (also figurative).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adverb] > non-resonant impact sound > thump
thump1840
1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus I. 56 Here Tacitus..bid him leave off his fulsome Preambles, and fall thump to the Business of the Impeachment.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine i Which..made his heart to go thump—thump! against his side.
2. spec.
a. A knocking or pounding of machinery arising from slackness at a joint where there is reciprocal motion.
b. In plural. A beating of the chest in the horse due to spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm, analogous to the hiccup in man.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses
trench?a1450
colt-evilc1460
affreyd?1523
cholera1566
crick1566
incording1566
leprosy1566
taint1566
eyesore1576
fistula1576
wrench1578
birth1600
garrot1600
stithy1600
stifling1601
stranglings1601
hungry evil1607
pose1607
crest-fall1609
pompardy1627
felteric1639
quick-scab1639
shingles1639
clap1684
sudden taking1688
bunches1706
flanks1706
strangles1706
chest-founderingc1720
body-founder1737
influenza1792
foundering1802
horse-sickness1822
stag-evil1823
strangullion1830
shivering1847
dourine1864
swamp fever1870
African horse sickness1874
horse-pox1884
African horse disease1888
wind-stroke1890
thump1891
leucoencephalitis1909
western equine encephalitis1933
stachybotryotoxicosis1945
rhinopneumonitis1957
1891 Special Rep. Dis. Horse (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 134 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (51st Congr., 2nd Session, House of Representatives Misc. Doc.130) XI Thumps—Spasm of the diaphragm... Thumps is produced by the same causes which produce congestion of the lungs.
3. In Yorkshire (esp. Halifax): a local festival; a feast, wake, etc. Thump Sunday n. the Sunday of the annual fair or festival week.
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > annual parish festival
wake?c1225
revel1478
give ale1524
feast1559
tide1824
thump1884
the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > festival-time > specific festivals
saturnals1487
Saturnalia1538
wake-day1538
Thanksgiving Day1674
Garland Day1833
wake-week1870
wakes week1886
Thump Sunday1916
thanksgiving1930
Garland Sunday1933
Garland Friday1960
1884 Folk-lore Jrnl. 2 25 Last Halifax Thump, a teetotaller..was punished, according to custom, by the company laying him face downwards and beating him on the back of the body with a heated fire-shovel.
1916 J. Hartley Seets i' Yorks. & Lancs. ii. 19 It'll be five year sin come Halifax thump Sunday.
1930 Brit. Weekly 4 Sept. 448/4 A correspondent sends us a description of ‘Deanhead Thump Sunday’, the..annual musical festival.
1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. ii. 40 A prime minister must, and if he is a northerner usually does, understand the complex of Wakes Weeks and Feast Weeks, to say nothing of Longwood Thump.
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4. dialect (chiefly Lancashire). Used emphatically, as a euphemism for ‘hell’ (see hell n. and int. Phrases 3), in exclamations of strong disagreement, outrage, etc.
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the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > angry speech > expression of anger
thump1930
1930 E. Raymond Jesting Army i. i. 6 Do Ah care how long it takes us to get there? Do Ah? Thoomp! Ah never was a soldier, tha knows.
1963 New Society 22 Aug. 5/1 The Lancashire, ‘Did he thump!’ where thump is an emphasized negative becomes at this school, ‘did he knock!’ as in ‘Will you lend me two and a kick to get some fags?’..‘No, will I knock!’
1987 Melody Maker 15 Aug. 6 ‘What the thump have you done to your hair?’ exclaims Def Leppard's Phil Coleen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
thumpv.
/θʌmp/, U.S. /θəmp/ 1.
a. transitive. To strike or beat heavily, as with the fist, a club, or any blunt instrument, producing a dead, dull, somewhat hard sound; also, without reference to the sound produced, to hammer, pound, knock forcibly. to thump a cushion, the pulpit, etc.: said of a preacher who uses violent gestures; cf. cushion-thumper n. at cushion n. Compounds 2.
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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
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) at Incurso Pugnis aliquem incursare, to renne on one to thumpe and beate hym with his fystes.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Pertundo, to beate with hammers: to thumpe, or knocke.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 2 Thee pacient panting shee thumpt and launst wyth a fyrebolt.
a1635 R. Corbet On Great Tom of Christ-Church 1 Be dumbe ye infant Chimes, thumpe not your mettle.
1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 218 In thumping the pulpit..has frighted some from their seats.
1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 2 The sturdy Pavior thumps the Ground.
1725 B. Higgons Hist. & Crit. Remarks Burnet's Hist. 113 He [sc. Bp. Burnet] would..with greater Pleasure and Vehemence have thump'd a Cushion in that Congregation we now call a Conventicle.
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 6 Chell vump tha.
1803 G. Colman John Bull iii. ii. 46 If he don't behave himself, I'll come in and thump him blue.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 62 There was he pinch'd and pitied, thump'd and fed.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) viii. 67 Don't you remember..how she was always thumping Louisa?
1907 Q. Rev. Apr. 393 It was left to the Navy League to thump the big drum.
1960 J. Rae Custard Boys ii. xii. 145 If you interrupt me again, Felix, I'll bloody well thump you.
1978 D. Devine Sunk without Trace xxi. 194 I saw red. If I didn't get out, I would thump him.
b. With complement: To drive or force (down, forward, off, out, etc., or into some position or condition) by thumping. Also, with out: to produce (a tune, beat, etc.) by thumping.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by impact or force > by striking or beating
smitec1330
swapa1375
inbeatc1420
possa1425
rushc1440
strike1450
ram1519
pash1530
thwack1566
whip1567
thump1596
lash1597
knocka1616
switcha1625
to knock down1653
to knock in1669
stave1837
whip1868
slog1884
to beat down-
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique
squeak1577
tinkle1582
divide1590
shake1611
slur1746
da capo1764
rattlea1766
to run over ——1789
skirl1818
spread?1822
develop1838
arpeggio1864
propose1864
recapitulate1873
jazz1915
lilt1916
jazzify1927
thump1929
schmaltz1936
belt1947
stroke1969
funkify1973
scratch1984
scratch-mix1985
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa4 He with his speare,..Would thumpe her forward, and inforce to goe. View more context for this quotation
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xviii. 141 Thrice the feet the hands of Hector seized, And thrice th' Ajaces thumped him off.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (1623) iii. ii. 11 When my hart..Beats.., Then thus I thumpe it downe.
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 104 To think..a slow body may be thumpt and driven into passion..how can we..entertain such suppositions?
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 4 Born to the flail and plough, To thump the corn out and to till the earth.
1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel xxiii. 315 She..thumped out popular tunes on a battered piano.
1974 C. Ryan Bridge too Far iii. i. 134 The bass drummer..thumped out a symbolic beat in Morse code: three dots and a dash—V for victory.
c. Of the feet, etc.: To beat or strike (the ground, etc.) heavily and noisily; also of a body: to impinge upon with a thump; to strike violently.
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the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > with sound
thump1582
plonk1874
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
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Downe the pilot tumbleth..headlong. Thrise the grauel thumping.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. x. sig. Hh2v A shrill pipe he playing heard on hight, And many feete fast thumping th'hollow ground. View more context for this quotation
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 173 His tail would thump the floor most vigorously.
d. With that which beats, strikes, or knocks as object. to thump down, to put or throw down with a thump.
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the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > with noise
clasha1637
thump1821
1720 A. Ramsay Wealth (new ed.) 5 While you may thump your Pows against the Wa.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel (1823) I. 9 And lumping knocks as one would thump a flail.
1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xvii. 173 Baggage, which he thumped down upon the floors.
e. To express by thumps.
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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 > express by thumps
thump1928
1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Oct. 335/3 His [sc. a dog's] tail..thumped a welcome.
2. figurative. To ‘beat’ (in a fight), to drub, lick, thrash severely. colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly
threshc1384
to knock the socks offa1529
thump1597
thrash1609
thwacka1616
capot1649
to beat to snuff1819
to knock into a cocked hat1830
to —— (the) hell out of1833
sledgehammer1834
rout1835
whop1836
skin1838
whip-saw1842
to knock (the) spots off1850
to make mincemeat of1853
to mop (up) the floor with1875
to beat pointless1877
to lick into fits1879
to take apart1880
to knock out1883
wax1884
contund1885
to give (a person) fits1885
to wipe the floor with1887
flatten1892
to knock (someone) for six1902
slaughter1903
slather1910
to hit for six1937
hammer1948
whomp1952
bulldozer1954
zilch1957
shred1966
tank1973
slam-dunk1975
beast1977
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 64 These bastard Brittains whom our fathers Haue in their own land beaten bobd and thumpt . View more context for this quotation
1802 G. Colman Broad Grins 40 In our Fifth Harry's reign, when 'twas the fashion To thump the French..to excess.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 14 Nov. (1941) 133 We have thumpd the Turks very well.
3.
a. intransitive. To strike or beat with force or violence, with an abrupt dull noise; to knock or bump with force. Also to thump it.
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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 > thump
thump1565
to cry thump1602
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (intransitive)] > heavily > with dull sound
thump1565
whump1928
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Insulto Insultare fores calcibus, to thumpe or beate at the doore with heeles.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 202 Colon chusing out a stone, Levell'd so right, it thumpt upon His manly panch.
1679 Song in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta (new ed.) iii. i, in 50 Comedies & Trag. sig. T4/1 Drums beat, Ensigns wave, and Cannons thump it.
1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 340 That which melodiously ringeth in the Light, rumbleth and thumpeth in the dark.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. xiii. 181 I heard the boat thumping under the main channels.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. vii. 72 The..floe-ice against which we were alternately sliding and thumping.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Dec. 3/2 No one thinks a drummer-boy a giant because he thumps away upon a big drum.
b. To walk with heavy sounding steps, to stump noisily; also, of a thing, to move with thumps or noisy jolts.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heavily
stamp1490
trample1530
tramp1570
stump1600
thump1604
clump1665
trape1706
pound1801
clamp1808
clomp1829
lump1861
tromp1892
stunt1901
stomp1919
1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. in Wks. (1885) VIII. 28 I thumped down stairs with my cowheel.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 378 Along..went the waggon, thumping and bumping up this hill and down that.
1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping 233 Long ropes..which thumped with wet swishes over the slippery decks.
1899 J. Lumsden Edinb. Poems & Songs 77 He thumpeth down the stony street.
c. Of the heart, etc.: To beat violently or audibly; to throb forcibly.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > [verb (intransitive)] > types of pulsation
panta1500
leap1526
throb1542
vermiculate1706
flutter1714
wallop1766
thump1785
rise1819
race1853
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 47 Who patient stands till his feet throb, And his head thumps.
1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii Everybody's heart was thumping as hard as possible.
1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 282 Hearts heaved, heads thumped.
1880 R. Browning Retio in Dramatic Idyls 180 How my head throbs, how my heart thumps.
Compounds
The verb-stem in combination with a noun.
ˈthump-cushion n. a preacher who thumps the cushion of the pulpit; in quot. 1827 attributive.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > boisterous, violent
Boanergesc1384
break-pulpit1589
thump-cushion1827
dustman1877
1827 G. Darley Sylvia 60 Grip him fast by his thump-cushion arm, lest he overdo the action.
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