Thump

Definition: Thump

Thump

Noun

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

2. A heavy blow with the hand.

Verb

1. Move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast".

2. Make a dull sound.

3. Hit hard with the had, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "thump" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Post & Telecom

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Thump

Impulse

Strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; (attack); whip c. (punish).

Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Ship

Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.

Crosswords: Thump

Books

• Bump! Thump! How Do We Jump? : Experiments outside (reference)

• The thump, blam, bump mystery (reference)

• Thump, Bump: Tiny, the Dancing Hippo (A Giant First-Start Reader) (reference)

• Thumpity Thump Gets Dressed (Golden Naptime Tale) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Thump Music (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A new thump of the gavel A scene in the House of Representatives ; The various "little games" illustrated ; Columbia enters the pandemonium and attempts to restore order ; Something for Americans and their representatives to study over / / J.A. Wales. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "thump": thump out. Additional references.

Beginning with "thump": thump-thump, thump-thump!.

Ending with "thump": double-thump, thumpity-thump, thump-thump.

Albanian

zhurmë goditjeje, goditje e fortë (oner, slog, slug, smacker, snifter, staggerer, stinger, swat, swinger, swipe, wallop), godas fort (affect, bang, smash, smite), bie me zhurmë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشى بخطوات قوية, ‏هزم هزيمة منكرة, ‏وقع محدثا صوتا عاليا, ‏طرق بقوة, ‏ضربة قوية (bounce, chop, crack, knocking, slog, slug), ‏ضرب بقوة (batter about, clout, lash, pound, slog, smack, thwack, triturate), ‏ضرب بعنف (bang, bash, baste, lambaste, maul, slam, smite, swat, swipe, whack, whale), ‏صوت عالي (smash), ‏جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), ‏رطم (stub). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удрям с юмруци (pommel, pummel), силен удар (biff, clip, lick, plunk, slog, slosh, smacker, smasher, sock, stinger, swipe, wallop, welt, welter, whammy, whang, whop), тупкане (palpitation, vibration), тупкам силно, тупване (flump, plump, thud, whop), туп (flop), бух (flop), блъскам (beat, bump up against, dash, hammer, hustle, jostle, knock, moil, pound, press, push, ram, shove, slam, smite, squash, strike), бия с юмруци (pommel, pummel), падане (drop, fall, falling, flow, incidence, mucker, prolapsus, spill, trip, tumble), думкане (whang), думкам (whang). (various references)

Chinese 

重�"� (bang), 重击 (smite, Smiting, smitten, Smote, swipe, Whack, Whacked, Whacking). (various references)

Czech

tlouci (batter, hit, knock, palpitate, pestle, throb), silný úder, dupat (stamp, stomp, tramp, trample), dunivá rána, bušit (knock, palpitate, pant, pelt, race, throb), bouchnutí (bang, crash, pop, slam, smash, thud), žuchnutí (bump, thud). (various references)

Farsi 

ضربت (Bat, Bob, Buff, Buffet, Bump, Contusion, Coup, Crack, Hack, Hew, Impact, Jar, Jolt, Jow, Knock, Percussion, Plunk, Pounce, Pound, Slap, Stroke, Swat, Thwack, Whack, Yerk), صدای تلپ , باصدای تلپ تلپ زدن یاراه رفتن . (various references)

Finnish

ryskyttää (pommel, pound), jysähtää (bump, fall down with a thud), jysähdys (thud). (various references)

French

tomber lourdement, taper, tanner, marcher � pas lourds, grand coup (thwack), frapper, coup de poigne, cogner, bruit lourd, bruit de télégraphe, battre fort, battre � plate (thrash out), assener. (various references)

German

dumpfer Schlag (thud), bumsen (ball, bang, bonk, bonking, bump, clout, hammer, have sex, kick, lay, screw, shag), Bums (bang, biff, bump, hop, kick, plank, plonk, prang, shunt, thud, thwack). (various references)

Greek 

κτυπώ βαρέωσ και υποκοφώσ, γρονθοκοπανώ, γροθιά (blow, fist, mitt, punch), γδούποσ (thud), βαρύσ υπόκωφοσ κτύποσ, χτυπώ βαρέωσ και υποκοφώσ, χτυπώ (beat, beat up, beaten, chime, clank, clap, clink, clip, clobber, hit, hurt, jangle, knock, punish, slosh, smite, spank, strike, strike down, swat, thrash). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחבוט (bang, beat off, flail, knock, mill, pound, smack, strike down, stroke, swat, swipe, thrash, thrust down, thwack). (various references)

Hungarian

tompa puffanás (thud), puffanás (dump, flop, flump, plump, squelch, thud, thunk, whang, whoomp, whoomph). (various references)

Indonesian

menggebrak (crash, hit, instigate), bergeropyak (thud). (various references)

Italian

tonfo (dash, fall, flop, plonk, splash, thud, wallop), picchiare (batter, beat, belt, come to blows, cuff, fight, hit, knock, slap, slat, slug, sock, strike, tap, whack), martellare (hammer, hammered, pound, throb), colpo (bang, beat, blow, bout, buffet, bump, chop, clap, clout, dab, dash, fit, flap, flick, hit, hitch, hoot, jab, knock, pelt, punch, punishment, putt, rap, shock, shot, slam, slap, sock, splash, stamp, sting, strike, stroke, thwack, whack), botta (bang, blow, hit, knock, pound, stroke, thwack), battere forte. (various references)

Korean 

강타 (bang, Bangs, bash, Bashing, Clout, smite, Smiting, swat, swipe, Swiping). (various references)

Manx

poltey (clap, clapping, flap, rap), poltal (banging, clap, clapping, explode, rap), polt (bang, blast, blast explosion, clap, concussion, crack, crack sound, detonation, explosion, flap, rap, report, shot, snap, stroke), losh (blow, clout), labbal (banging, bash, buffeting, clout, clouting, cuff, hit, hitting, knock, strike, striking, thumping), labb (bash, blow, bump, clout, cuff), donkey (bump), donkal (bump), donk (bump), builley (bash, beat, beat as pulse, bump, cadence, cadence of voice, cast, choosing, clap, fervour, fit, frenzy, hit, impact, knock, madness, pulsate, pulsation, punch, slam, slap, strike, stroke, sweep, toot, toot on horn, whack). (various references)

Pig Latin

umpthay.(various references)

Portuguese

soco (blow, bop, fib, jab, lunge, paste, patten, punch, sabot, sock, socle, stroke, supporting base, wallop), socar (box, buffet, crush, cuff, fist, pound, soak, sock, tamp), pancada surda, murro (bop, floorer, jab, punch, sock), martelar (bang, drum, hammer, hammering, strum), esmurrar (bang, clout, paste, pound, punch, soak), batimento (backlash, bouncing, hammering, knock, pit-a-pat, pulsation, pulse, shock), bater em (hit, maul, paste, smite, strike, swinge), baque (blow, flop, plump, shake, shoke, thud), agredir a soco (pummel). (various references)

Romanian

trosc (bang, crash, thud, whack), tronc (crack, well), zdup (bang, bump, flop, jug, limbo, Nick, quod, smash, thud), minţi (fib, lie, rook, sham, stretch), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), buşi (thrust), bocãniturã, bocãni (clamp, hammer, knock, tramp), 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, thud, toll, tussle, warming). (various references)

Russian 

стучать (clunk, drum, knock, pink, rap), ударять (bang, beat, biff, crump, dub, jab, jounce, knock, rap, slugged, slugging, strike, whang), тяжелый удар (oner, pound), колотить удар (thwack), глухой звук (thud). (various references)

Scottish

stailc (knock against, press forward, stamp, strike, stubbornness), sad (aught, dust shaken from anything by beating, or brush off dust, smart blow), lunndraig, buthainnich. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tup udarac (clop, thud), udarati pesnicom. (various references)

Spanish

trastazo (bump), vibrar con violencia, ruido sordo (grumble, plonk, plump, plunk, thud), porrazo (bump, purler, thud, whack), latir con golpes pesados, golpear (bang, bat, beat, beat up on, beetle, bop, buffet, bump, clip, clobber, club, drive, flail, hit, jab, kick, knock, lash, punch, rap, rattle, slam, slap, slice, slog, smash, smite, strike, tee off, thrash, wallop, whack), golpazo (wallop), funcionar con ruido sordo, dar una paliza (beat, beat up, do over, lace in, Lam, lash, lay into, lick, put across, put over, take apart, tank, thrash, trounce, work over), dar golpes (beat, knock, lash out, pound, tee off, thrash), aporrear (bang, bang away, beat, beat up, blackjack, bludgeon, clobber, club, cosh, cudgel, knock about, pommel, pound, pound on, pummel, slog, slug, thrash, thwack, whack). (various references)

Swedish

stöt (blast, bump, concussion, dig, hit, impact, impingement, impulse, jab, jar, jerk, job, jog, jolt, jostle, knock, pass, percussion, prod, push, shock, shove, thrust), slag (action, bang, battle, beat, bilge, blow, bust, clip, clout, cuff, cut, day, description, dye, fashion, fight, genre, genus, hit, impingement, jab, kidney, kind, knock, lape, lapel, larrup, lash, leg, lick, moment, nature, order, percussion, quality, scuffle, shock, slap, smack, species, stamp, strike, stroke, struggle, tack, tap, turn, type, warbling, wham, whang), duns (bump, clonk, flop, plop, plunk, thud), dunka (clap, clonk, pound, thrib, throb, thud). (various references)

Turkish

yumruklamak (batter, batter down, biff, buffet, clump, fist, give smb. snuff, hit out, pommel, pound, pummel, punch), yumruk sesi, yumruk atmak (box, deal a blow at smb., deal smb. a blow, dot smb. one, fist, hit, hit out, paste, paste smb. one, plug, punch, soak), yumruk (biff, blow, box, buffet, fist, jab, plug, punch), küt küt atmak (pound), gümbürdemek (boom, clash, grumble, rumble, thunder), güm güm vurmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

gьrsьldemek (beat). (various references)

Ukrainian

ударятися (smite, strike), глухий звук від удару, важкий удар (pound, thud, whop), вибивати (beat off, drive out, emboss, hammer out, knock out), бити (bang, batter, beat, castigate, chastise, chime, cob, hit, lambaste, lay into, maul, sing out, souse, towel, trounce, whop). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quả thụi, quả đấm (door-knob). (various references)

Welsh

pwnio (beat, nudge, wallop), dyrnu (thresh), dulio (bang, beat, hammer), baeddu (bait, beat, belabor, buffet, soil). (various references)

dub-dab . . . za. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "thump": thumped, thumper, thumpers, thumping, thumps. (additional references)

Words ending with "thump": bethump, callithump. (additional references)

Words containing "thump": bethumped, bethumping, bethumps, callithumpian, callithumps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Thump" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thaum, thep, thom, Thommo, thop, thulp, thum, thume, thums, thup, tumpy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hump, phut, tump.

-2 letters: hum, hup, hut, mut, pht, put, tup, ump.

-3 letters: hm, mu, uh, um, up, ut.

+1 letter: thumps.

+2 letters: bethump, matchup, thumped, thumper, triumph.

+3 letters: bethumps, humpiest, matchups, philtrum, thumpers, thumping, triumphs.

+4 letters: asphaltum, bethumped, euphemist, hospitium, mouthpart, multipath, pyrethrum, triumphal, triumphed, umpteenth.

+5 letters: apothecium, asphaltums, bethumping, callithump, epithelium, euphemists, hypanthium, imposthume, mouthparts, mouthpiece, multiphase, photomural, posthumous, promethium, protohuman, punishment, pyrethrums, thumbprint, triumphant, triumphing, unemphatic.