Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dull heavy sound, as of something dropped on a surface.
- intransitive verb To move or fall heavily with a dull sound.
- intransitive verb To place or drop with a flump.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To throw down with violence.
- To throw one's self down heavily; flop: as, she flumped down into a chair.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive to
move orfall heavily , or with adull sound - verb transitive to
drop something heavily or with a dull sound - noun the dull sound so produced
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- verb fall heavily
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Several more seconds led to several smaller "flump" sounds, and we were eventually left with a pile of warm, steamy Boll bits, and a slightly perplexed material science engineer!
CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries Mello 2010
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After about 8 seconds in the microwave we heard a slightly muffled "flump" sound, which turned out to be a Boll exploding into smaller boll-bits.
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After about 8 seconds in the microwave we heard a slightly muffled "flump" sound, which turned out to be a Boll exploding into smaller boll-bits.
CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries Mello 2010
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Several more seconds led to several smaller "flump" sounds, and we were eventually left with a pile of warm, steamy Boll bits, and a slightly perplexed material science engineer!
CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries Mello 2010
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After about 8 seconds in the microwave we heard a slightly muffled "flump" sound, which turned out to be a Boll exploding into smaller boll-bits.
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After about 8 seconds in the microwave we heard a slightly muffled "flump" sound, which turned out to be a Boll exploding into smaller boll-bits.
CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries Mello 2010
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A half minute later, there was an explosive flump, the groan of contorting steel, a crash as the door frame was torn from the wall, the overhead twisting and falling.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010
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He was a noisy contraption too quick too early in day and with small bump and flump fump with balding front tire he struck a mother duck.
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Berryman, who wrote funny poems and then stopped writing funny poems and launched himself off a bridge and, flump, that was it for him.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Berryman, who wrote funny poems and then stopped writing funny poems and launched himself off a bridge and, flump, that was it for him.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
reesetee commented on the word flump
a heavy, dull sound
April 30, 2007
yarb commented on the word flump
One of the two wheels of David's cart flumped.
- Louis Zukofsky, Thanks to the Dictionary
June 20, 2008
wordlover42 commented on the word flump
I love this sound. FLUMP!
June 24, 2009
kalayzich commented on the word flump
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) IV. 182 Flumping himself down in the midst of a tuft of cowslips.
April 19, 2015