thungen.
/θʌndʒ/ dialect.
‘A loud, hollow sound’; ‘a heavy blow or fall producing such a sound’.
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1849 ‘T. Treddlehoyle’ Bairnsla Foaks' Ann. 16 Sho wor startald we a thunge at chaimber-floor.
1863 J. H. Burrow Advent. Alfan 350 He lay down..and listened to the thunges of the battering-ram.
1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. Thunge..(2) sb. a thump; a heavy fall. ‘I come down sich a thunge’.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Thunge, s. (1) a loud, hollow sound... It is the word always used to imitate the sound of a gun.
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thunge v. ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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