flump
/flʌmp
/verb [no object, with adverbial of direction]
Fall or sit down heavily: I flumped back into bed...
- Jepta sat across from her and Mikhail pulled up a chair, flumping down onto it and facing Navi as best he could, the glare still in his eyes.
- Emma flumped into a chair at her kitchen counter.
- Julia sighed and flumped on her bed, gathering her knees up to her chin.
noun [in singular]
The action or sound of a heavy fall: the rocks hit the ground with a flump...
- There was a loud flump as a collection of letters landed on the doormat.
- With a soft flump, I flopped on my own bed and yawned.
- She heard a soft flump as Danny's arm dropped on to the bed, and she sighed, knowing what he was going to say next.
Origin
Early 17th century: imitative.
Rhymes
- non-interference
- non-interferer
- non-interfering
- non-interlaced
- non-intervene
- non-intervener
- non-intervening
- non-intervention
- non-interventionalist
- non-interventionism
- non-interventionist
- non-intrusion
- non-intrusionist
- non-invasive
- non-invasively
- non-involvement
- nonionic
- non-iron
- non-irritant
- non-irritating
- non-ism
- non-isotopic
- non-issue
- nonius
- non-Jew