Thud

Definitions: Thud

Thud

Noun

1. A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects).

Verb

1. Make a dull sound.

2. Strike with a dull sound; "Bullets were thudding against the wall".

3. Make a crunching noise, as of an engine lacking lubricants.

Date "thud" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Thud n. 1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'. 2. Rare term for the hash character, `#' (ASCII 0100011). See ASCII for other synonyms. Source: Jargon File.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
THUD	English	Thorium-uranium-deuterium(-reactor)	Nuclear Energy & Physics
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Thud

Synonyms: clump (n), clunk (n), thumping (n), crump (v), crunch (v), scrunch (v), thump (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Thud

English words defined with "thud": plop, plunk. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Thud" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Scottish (an interjection of dislike or impatience: Scottish hoot).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Ha ha! I shall tell you what manner of man is he. He lives for a sigh, he dies for a kiss, he lusts for the laugh, ha! He never walks when he can leap! He never flees when he can fight (thud) oop! (The Court Jester; writing credit: Melvin Frank; Norman Panama)
Lyrics	Bloodsoaked thud slashing sound (Manic Demise; performing artist: The Creation)
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Domain	Title
Books	Crash, Bang, Thud (reference) Humphrey Thud (reference) Thud (reference) Thud (Modern Military Aircraft) (reference) Thud Ridge (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Thud (reference) Thud Rumble: Scratchon 2000 V.1 [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Thud.		Wet thud.
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"Thud" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.20% of the time. "Thud" is used about 211 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	87.2%	184	22,714
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	5.69%	12	101,599
Interjection	5.69%	12	101,599
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.42%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	211	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "thud": thud-thud, thud-thud-thud.
	Ending with "thud": crack-thud, ka-thud, thud-thud, thud-thud-thud.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "thud"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhurmë e mbytur (clump), bie pëlltum. (various references)

Arabic		‏هدر (boom, brawl, growl, plash, roar, squandering, thunder, waste, yell), ‏صوت مكتوم, ‏جلجل (jingle, peal), ‏أصدر صوتا مكتوما. (various references)

Bulgarian		строполясвам се с глух звук, тъп звук, тупване (flump, plump, thump, whop), тупвам (flump, pitch, whop). (various references)

Chinese		重击声. (various references)

Czech		tupý úder, bouchnutí (bang, crash, pop, slam, smash, thump), bouchnout (bang, crash, hit, pop), žuchnutí (bump, thump), žuchnout. (various references)

Farsi		هف هف , تپ تپ (Pump), ضربه های متوالی , ضربه (Brunt, Hack, Hew, Hook, Impact, Lash, Pelt, Sock, Strike, Stroke, Tit, Whop), صدای خفه واهسته ایجادکردن . (various references)

Finnish		jyske (boom, crash, noise, pounding), jysähdys (thump), jymähtää (boom), jymähdys (bang, boom, detonation). (various references)

French		son mat, gronder (threaten), faire un bruit sourd, bruit sourd. (various references)

German		schlag (apoplectic fit, ball, bang, bash, beat, belt, bent, blow, bolt, buffet, chime, chop, clap, clout, clump, cosh, coup, cuff, fit, helping, hit, kick, kind, knock, lash, Pat, pelt, percussion, poke, pulsation, punch, putt, seizure, shock, shot, slap, smack, smash, sock, sort, stinger, strike, stripe, stroke, stroke of apoplexy, swat, tack, tap, thump, thwack, type, wallop), puppern (quake, shake, thump, tremble), plumps (bang, bump, crash, flop, plop, tumble), dumpfer schlag (thump), bums (bang, biff, bump, hop, kick, plank, plonk, prang, shunt, thump, thwack), bullern (bubble, roar, rumble), aufschlagen dumpf. (various references)

Greek		κτυπώ βαρέωσ, κτυπώ υποκωφώσ, γδούποσ (thump), βαρύσ κτύποσ, χτυπώ βαρέωσ, χτυπώ υποκωφώσ. (various references)

Hebrew		להשמיע קול עמום, קול עמום. (various references)

Hungarian		tompa hang (dead sound, woody sound), puffanás (dump, flop, flump, plump, squelch, thump, thunk, whang, whoomp, whoomph), tompa puffanás (thump), dobbanás (beat). (various references)

Indonesian		bergeropyak (thump). (various references)

Italian		tonfo (dash, fall, flop, plonk, splash, thump, wallop), rumore sordo, colpire con un tonfo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		バズーカ砲 (bachelor, battered child, bazooka, butter, butter sauce, buttercream, butterfly, buzz session, clattering noise, flapping, rattling, Vatican), ドイツ連邦共和国 (a do-it-yourself store, cancel at the last minute, Debussy, dock, docking, doctor, doctor course, doctrine, document, documental, documentary, documentary drama, documentation, dodecaphony, dodge ball, doeskin, dog racing, dogfight, doggie bag, dogma, dogmatic, dogmatism, dogmatist, doily, do-it-yourself, dominant, domino, donor, doom, doo-wop, dot, dot map, dot matrix, dot printer, dwell, dwelling, Federal Republic of Germany, referee's stop, to be noisy, to make noise, yakuza sword), スンプ法 (canvas, cloth, courgette, screen, sump method, trousers, zoom, zoom in, zoom lens, zooming, zoot suit, zucchini), ゴシック建築 (Gobelins, goblet, goblin, god, Goddard, godfather, Godzilla, gospel, gospel song, gossip, gossip maker, gothic, Gothic architecture, State Bank, State Plan). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		バタン , ドサ , ドタン , ズシン , ゴツン . (various references)

Korean		털석. (various references)

Pig Latin		udthay

Portuguese		ruído surdo, baque (blow, flop, plump, shake, shoke, thump). (various references)

Romanian		trosc (bang, crash, thump, whack), zgomot surd (dead sound, dump, flump), zdup (bang, bump, flop, jug, limbo, Nick, quod, smash, thump), rãbufnealã (bang, outbreak), cãdea cu un zgomot surd, bufniturã (flump, plump), bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thump, toll, tussle, warming). (various references)

Russian		шлепнуться (flop), глухой звук (thump). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tupo udariti, tup udarac (clop, thump). (various references)

Spanish		ruido sordo (grumble, plonk, plump, plunk, thump), hacer un ruido sordo, hacer caer con ruido sordo, golpe sordo, caer con ruido sordo. (various references)

Swedish		duns (bump, clonk, flop, plop, plunk, thump), dunka (clap, clonk, pound, thrib, throb, thump). (various references)

Thai		เสียงดังตุ้บ, ทำให้เกิดเสียงดังตุ้บ. (various references)

Turkish		tok ses, pat sesi (Pat, thudding), pat diye düşmek (flump, keel over, slump), pat (aster, bang, blip, flump, phut, plump, pop), küt (bang, bump, plump, pop), güm (bang, boom, flump, pop, slam, whang). (various references)

Ukranian		шквал (flaw, flurry, gust, squall), глухий звук (surd), важкий удар (pound, thump, whop), видавати глухі звуки, налітати із шквалом, звалитися (crumple). (various references)

Vietnamese		tiếng uỵch, tiếng thịch. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "thud": thudded, thudding, thuds. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Thud" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hudd, taud, thad, thade, thaud, thed, theda, theid, thewd, thid, thide, thild, thiod, thod, thode, thoed, thold, thot, thoud, thque, thu, thub, Thuc, thudd, thuddy, thue, thuf, thul, thum, thun, thuo, thup, thur, thuth, thuz, tju, toud, trud, Tshudi, Tsuda, tud, tuh, tuht, tyuc. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "thud" (pronounced thu"d)
2	-u" d	blood, bud, crud, dud, flood, mud, Rudd, Scud, spud, stud, Sudd.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-h-t-u"
	-1 letter: duh, hut.
	-2 letters: uh, ut.
	Words containing the letters "d-h-t-u"
	+1 letter: dhuti, dutch, thuds.
	+2 letters: chuted, dhutis, dought, drouth, hunted, hutted, shuted, thoued, tushed.
	+3 letters: doughty, draught, drought, drouths, drouthy, handout, haunted, hideout, hindgut, holdout, hurtled, hustled, hutched, mouthed, oughted, outchid, shouted, shunted, southed, thudded, thumbed, thumped, thunder, thunked, touched, toughed, tundish.
	+4 letters: aunthood, authored, badmouth, chaunted, clutched, crutched, daughter, deathcup, deathful, dianthus, doughnut, draughts, draughty, droughts, droughty, druthers, dustheap, dutchman, dutchmen, enthused, grutched, habitude, handouts, headhunt, hebetude, hideouts, hindguts, holdouts, humidity, huntedly, outchide, outheard, scutched, shouldst, shutdown, shuttled, sleuthed, smutched, studfish, thousand, thrummed, thrusted, thudding, thunders, thundery, unbathed, unhatted, unheated, unthawed, unthread, wauchted, waughted, whodunit, wuthered.
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