单词 | thumping |
释义 | thumpingn. The action of thump v. in various senses; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily thumping?1577 thuddinga1813 twatting1963 ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 136 They daunce with..monstrous thumping of the feete. 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 84 Leaping Dolphins, with the thumping of their tails, loosened the planks. 1722 in Boulton Amusem. Old London (1901) I. 29 She may expect a good thumping. 1862 B. Taylor Poet's Jrnl. ii. Autumnal Dreams The drowsy air is startled With the thumping of the flail. 1892 J. A. Symonds Life Michelangelo (1899) I. v. ii. 187 He was cast forth..with good round kicks and thumpings. Compounds thumping-board n. a loaded board placed across the keys of an organ just behind the part used by the fingers, to prevent an undue rising of the key when released by the finger. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > board across back of keys thumping-board1879 thumper1906 1879 Organ Voicing i. 6 The thumping-board or damper, assists to keep the keys level. 1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building viii. 114 A heavy damper or ‘thumping-board’ should be laid across the key-board. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). thumpingadj. 1. That thumps, in various senses; beating; banging; throbbing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [adjective] > striking heavily thumping1581 thumpatory1693 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxvii. 106 The tumbling Cybistike, the thumping Pugillate, the buffeting Cestus. a1596 G. Peele Loue King Dauid & Fair Bethsabe (1599) sig. Fij To scape the furie of their thumping beakes. 1859 Habits Good Society vi. 234 The loud, thumping style [of playing the piano] should be avoided. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 916 In slim, long-chested youths..a thumping or uncovered heart may well be mistaken for a hypertrophy. 2. figurative (colloquial). Of striking size, extent, or amount; exceptionally large or heavy; huge, ‘whacking’, ‘whopping’: cf. bouncing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great swappingc1440 bumping1566 thumping1576 swingeinga1592 knocking1598 gigantical1604 gigantine1605 gigantean1611 gigantal?1614 thundering1618 whoppinga1625 humming1654 rapping1657 whisking1673 threshing1707 sousing1735 nation1765 heroic1785 runaway1790 spanking1791 gigantic1797 whacking1797 cracking1834 ringing1834 bouncing1842 walloping1847 stavingc1850 banging1864 howling1865 whooping1866 smacking1888 God almighty1913 Christ almighty1961 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > exceptionally large of its kind gurta1400 swappingc1440 swappit?a1513 strongc1540 thwacking1567 thumping1576 bouncing1579 swingeinga1592 whoppinga1625 rapping1657 spankinga1666 whisking1673 swagging1731 skelping?a1786 whacking1797 slapping1825 plumping1832 walloping1847 slashing1854 smacking1888 plonking1896 sollicking1946 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. L. Vives in Panoplie Epist. 402 He vseth great and thumping words. a1669 H. Foulis Hist. Romish Treasons (1671) i. iv. 30 The thumping commendations of their Saints. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 48 Strong Wine, and thumping Glasses. 1815 He must be Married iii. i, in New Brit. Theatre IV. 268 A house-full of great, thumping, rosy-cheeked, boys and girls. 1826 W. E. Andrews Crit. & Hist. Rev. Fox's Bk. Martyrs II. 270 This is a thumping lie. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xvii. 168 Let us console that martyr..with thumping damages. 1865 Sir S. Northcote in Daily News 29 May 3 Producing sensational effects by the utterance of what I may call good, stout, thumping lies. 1902 C. G. Harper Holyhead Road II. 94 The electors returned both himself and the other Conservative candidate by thumping majorities. Derivatives ˈthumpingly adv. (a) literal; (b) colloquial very, exceedingly. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [adverb] > heavily thumpingly1693 slam1726 bash1833 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely hugelyc1380 huge1508 enormly1538 monstruously?1548 massively1550 monstrously1602 a worlda1616 hugeouslya1643 immensely1654 vastly1664 swingingly1668 hugeous1673 gigantically1678 vast1688 swingeing1690 thumpingly1693 enormously1695 pancratically1727 immense1754 colossally1809 whooping1866 monumentally1877 pyramidically1886 pyramidally1891 galactically1968 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. ix. 77 If I did not..thumpingly bethwack her Gillets. 1923 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 211/1 [He] gripped my hand—Shook it thumpingly. 1948 Manch. Guardian Weekly 11 Nov. 3 There was a thumpingly false assumption made about the American farmer. 1977 Times 17 Feb. 8/5 A book of thumpingly high entertainment value. 1983 Notes & Queries Feb. 85/2 Even the thumpingly main statement of the last couplet of Spenser's ‘tradefull Merchants’ sonnet can be regarded as a mere gesture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1577adj.1576 |
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