Meaning

4 senses
  1. A blow that produces a muffled sound.

    dumpfer Schlag, dumpf

    глухо́й уда́рgluxój udár, глухо́й уда́рgluxój udár

    a heavy blow with the hand

  2. The sound of such a blow; a thud.

  3. (colloquial, dated, euphemistic)Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.

    Where the thump have you been?!

  4. Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).

Examples

33 sentences
  1. A loud thump woke me up.

  2. A heard a loud thump from upstairs.

  3. I heard a thumping noise coming from the adjacent room.

  4. I heard a thump.

    ruЯ услышал глухой стук. — sivelock

  5. Tom heard a thump.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
blow:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
blow:
sound:

Origin

Mid 16th century, probably imitative.

Mid 16th century, probably imitative.

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Forms

plural: thumps
Singularthump
Pluralthumps

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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