Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dull heavy sound, as of something dropped on a surface.
- v. To move or fall heavily with a dull sound: flumped onto the sofa.
- v. To place or drop with a flump.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To throw down with violence.
- To throw one's self down heavily; flop: as, she flumped down into a chair.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive to move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound
- v. transitive to drop something heavily or with a dull sound
- n. the dull sound so produced
WordNet 3.0
- v. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- v. fall heavily
Etymologies
- (onomatopoeia). Compare plunk. (Wiktionary)
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Berryman, who wrote funny poems and then stopped writing funny poems and launched himself off a bridge and, flump, that was it for him.”
“She goe rown an rown lyke a dervish fer minits at a tyme den flump down awn her bak!”
Oh, dis looks ni— - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Once she pikked a rat up -ai fink it wuz asleep-carried it tew da shed roof set it down whilst she tried teh flump down next it,teh ole ratty lept up frew itself orf teh shed,ober teh fence,hit mah car jumpt tew teh flor an ran up teh rowd!”
Note to self: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“I turned the dial to HIGH, barely hearing the flump of igniting gas.”
“And then, you know, all in a moment, the whole of the bed coverings were torn off with extraordinary violence, and I heard the flump they made as they were hurled into the corner.”
“I needed to flump out and try to recall the peace of the Sanctuary visit when I was all happy and relaxed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flump’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like.
(dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 102 more...
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Fun Onomatopoeia
Add your favorite sound words!
squdge, blurk, flump, boing, foomph, jing, klatt, chchchch, rrrrg, kersmack, crawk, plik and 2 more...
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Sounds
Shhh! Listen! Did you hear that?
tintinnabulous, susurration, ululation, pandemonium, keening, tinkle, clang, caterwaul, twangle, twank, din, rumble and 34 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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vorpal's Words
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Odd-Ball
Just plain fun to say and wonder about their origins.
rapscallion, ramahanukwanzmas, cockamamie, nincompoop, hemidemisemiquaver, antiinterdenomina..., cattywampus, ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, blunderbuss, brobdingnagian, tintinnabulation and 127 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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Swishy Burbles
Words with a certain flowing, silly sound to them; I may as well have found them in a James Joyce novel.
podlec, shuckling, woofits, splenetic, wodges, dromedary, chickabiddy, doodsmak, plashoot, clawscrunt, dwergmal, wherrit and 159 more...
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silly, silly words
besnotted, skedaddle, humdinger, pamplemousse, pantalones, underpants gnomes, underoos, herpes zoster, possums, meat slurry, sausage, peevish and 256 more...
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joshleejosh's Words
inchoate, garner, oft, hydrocephalitic, twee, dorktacular, tic, discourse, coded, avuncular, maleficent, saguaro and 46 more...
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Freerice
katabatic, cozen, depurate, entelechy, torrefy, talion, springhalt, spatchcock, poleyn, syncope, leister, palladium and 51 more...
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toner's Words
contitute, flump, malice, agentivize, calumniate, deliberator, polder, disintermediating, disfluencies, parameterize, ulterior, nihonjinron and 86 more...
Tweets
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wordlover42 I love this sound. FLUMP! Jun 23, 2009
yarb One of the two wheels of David's cart flumped.
- Louis Zukofsky, Thanks to the Dictionary Jun 20, 2008
reesetee a heavy, dull sound Apr 30, 2007