thud
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See also: Thud
Etymology
From Middle English thudden (“to strike with a weapon”), from Old English þyddan (“to strike, press, thrust”), from Proto-Germanic *þuddijaną, *þiudijaną (“to strike, thrust”), from Proto-Germanic *þūhaną, *þeuhaną (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūk- (“to beat”). Cognate with Old English þoddettan (“to strike, push, batter”), Old English þȳdan (“to strike, stab, thrust, press”), Old English þēowan (“to press”), Albanian thundër (“a hoof, talon, a shaft", figuratively, "oppression, torment”).
Pronunciation
Noun
thud (plural thuds)
- The sound of a dull impact.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 3, in Moonfleet (fiction), London: Edward Arnold:
- These were but the thoughts of a second, but the voices were nearer, and I heard a dull thud far up the passage, and knew that a man had jumped down from the churchyard into the hole.
- 2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian, London, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2018:
- Ramos had locked Salah’s right arm and turned him, judo-style, as they lost balance going for the same ball. Television replays hardened the suspicion it was a calculated move on Ramos’s part and, when Salah landed with a hell of a thud, the damage was considerable.
- A hard, dull impact.
- 1995 January 26, Mary Ann Swissler, “Fremont Man Recovering from Livermore Pass Attack”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume XXV, number 4, San Fransico, page 18:
- Sinclair told the B.A.R. [Bay Area Reporter] he felt the thud of the pistol on his left cheek about a 100 feet from his car, […]
- (BDSM) A slower, dull impact with a wide surface area.
- 1992, Jay J. Wiseman, SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, 2nd edition, San Francisco: Greenery Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 181:
- Pillowcase whippings offer the look and feel of a flagellatio scene’s atmosphere, mood, and psychology while involving only very mild amounts of pain. (A pillowcase is almost all “thud” and very little “sting” in the sensations it creates.)
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
the sound of a dull impact
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Verb
thud (third-person singular simple present thuds, present participle thudding, simple past and past participle thudded)
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a dull impact.
- 1849, George Frederick Ruxton, Life in the Far West (non-fiction), New York: Harper & Brothers, page 183:
- At the same instant two arrows thudded into the carcass of the deer over which he knelt, passing but a few inches from his head.
- 1874, Mrs George Cupples, “Mrs Glen and the Aberfoyle Orphanage”, in The Poetical Remains of William Glen, Edinburgh: William Paterson, page 47:
- […] while the tears streamed from his eyes, and his tail waved and thudded in perfect time on the sanded floor. But for the said thudding of the tail, I would have stopped, fancying the poor animal's nerves had been set on edge.
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
Translations
to make the sound of a dull impact
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Uncertain. Perhaps Onomatopoeic (compare etymology 2).
Noun
thud
Etymology 2
Perhaps Onomatopoeic. Perhaps related to Middle English þudde.
Verb
thud
- to come or pass with a gust of turbulence and accompanying dull noise
- 1590, Burel, J. Pilgr., The Passage of the Pilgremer:
- The borial blasts … Not caldly, bot baldlie, They thudit throw the treis
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Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “thud”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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