Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A loud, heavy blow or thud.
- v. To hit or strike.
- v. To defeat soundly; trounce: whomped the opposing team.
- v. To prepare or make, especially with little effort. Often used with up: "Meanwhile, you whomp up yams and spuds and bake your pies” ( Garrison Keillor).
- v. To hit or strike with a whomp.
Wiktionary
- v. slang Hit extremely hard.
WordNet 3.0
- v. beat overwhelmingly
- v. hit with the hand
Etymologies
- Perhaps a variant of whip, similar to whup. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I thought I was the only one with a word whomp addiction.”
“How about a question where she goes first, followed by him - giving him the opportunity to "whomp" her?”
“Obama did 'whomp' Hillary first when she said she had been asking the Pentagon about a plan.”
“It slammed down on the beach with a sickening "whomp" while it smashed palm trees and demolished an entire campground.”
“The doors slam shut with a satisfying "whomp," the climate-control buttons make a sturdy "click" and, best of all, you can put the ragtop down with one hand!”
“I heard a noise, as if something giant and alive was being torn in two, and then I heard a "whomp" outside the window.”
“The ice made a huge "whomp" sound, and Tribone said that his sister, Allegra Tribone, asked if they were dead, which thankfully they weren't.”
“Kratos sends the chains flying away and landing with a very satisfying 'whomp' sound.”
“One side of it was close to the woods and the flames were significantly high and I was just waiting for it to 'whomp' into the woods. ”
“Members of al Qaeda in Iraq came to expect that they might wake up one night to the whomp of a helicopter overhead, the rattle of a Humvee outside, the explosion of their front door.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whomp’.
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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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mots justes
No true synonyms, no other word will do.
dysphemism, nyehre, conflate, onomatopœic, galumph, zeitgeist, mercenary, theomeny, git, snarky, sass, smarmy and 46 more...
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onomatopoeic
warble, quibble, quirk, drudgery, chortle, snicker, galumph, thwart, schlock, whimsy, garble, miffed and 25 more...
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words I love to use
kerfuffle, smarmy, sketchy, grim, wheedle, piffle, prattle, loggerheads, snarky, piddling, nix, caterwaul and 90 more...
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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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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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Onomatopoetics
Words formed in imitation of a natural sound.
bumble-bee, rat-a-tat, blurt, clink, chickadee, rub-a-dub, chirr, chug, keck, flim-flam, brekekekex, thunk and 94 more...
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Conversations for the Ages
A list of words that have fascinating conversations on them. Or just, you know, really funny ones. If I missed any, I hope someone will let me know...
Also see a few other Wordizens' l...misuse, slough of despond, drinking problem, sausage fest, vergerhade, baromets, todal, googlewhack, quetzalcoatl, cheesewa, cheesois, absinthe and 187 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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Just 'cause I like 'em, W
washboard, winterbourne, winze, wirble, waterway, windrow, winceyette, waft, whiffletree, wheelbarrow, whicker, wacky and 170 more...
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Fun with sounds
In which words that represent sounds are listed.
splat, plop, plunk, kapow, swish, poof, boom, whomp, boop, whoosh, bonk
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succinct
don't use a long word when a short one will do
huff, sass, shady, quirk, thwart, munge, kludge, kitsch, schlock, nix, tromp, trudge and 22 more...
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Whomp!
There it is.
Onomatopoeic impacts.whomp, thwack, smack, skoosh, slap, thump, squish, squelch, thud, whump, wham, bam and 24 more...
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List
Witty, Murmur, Schism, Smolder, ingle nook, revenant, sea-gate, swell, knot, gunwale, oarlock, poppet and 65 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for whomp.
tbtabby Also the name of an enemy in Super Mario 64. A giant slab of stone with stubby arms and legs and a big, ugly face. It tries to crush Mario by falling on him, but if it misses, he can kill it by ground-pounding the weak spot on its back. Jan 22, 2009
bilby Isn't this a Charlie Brown word? Jan 22, 2009
tbtabby What would Miss Finster say if she learned that "whomp" is a real word, but it isn't dirty? Jan 22, 2009
yarb Farmer Palmer whomped the whip in the air, and snapped it lightly on the ass's rump.
- William Steig, Farmer Palmer's Wagon Ride Sep 29, 2008
chained_bear Right. You're right.
What about the sound of its wings flapping, like when Frodo and Sam are hiding in the marsh of the dead and the fell beast flies over? Would you call that a whumpf? Mar 1, 2008
yarb I watched the movie again a few days ago and I heard the noise in question. In my opinion it's sort of a shcrearrrk - sort of Gaelic-sounding. Nov 30, 2007
yarb For speculation as to the feeding habits of fell beasts, see whopping. Nov 9, 2007
chained_bear I love that we're having a normal conversation using "fell beast" lots of times.
I know the Nazgul make a horrid noise, but the fell beast with its wing wrapped around the gate tower at Minas Morghul--that's definitely the beast making the horrible screaming noise. I just wouldn't know what to call it. "Screech" doesn't do it justice. Oct 22, 2007
yarb I haven't watched it in a few months, but are you sure you mean the noise of the fell beasts, not the screeching of the Nazgul?
I know the scene - I can see the fell beast straining at the bit, slavering at the prospect of horse-flesh - but I can't bring to mind any noise the rearing fell beast might make.
I'll look out for it next time. Oct 21, 2007
chained_bear Wait, though---what do you think the sound is of the screaming of the fell beasts? I cannot describe it in any effective way, but I always think of the scene in "Return of the King" in which the armies are marching out of Minas Morghul. (What a scene to watch with surround-sound...) Oct 21, 2007
yarb I suppose it is more of a whumpf. Gotta love those fell beasts. Oct 20, 2007
oroboros Yeah, I like whumpf. Whomp is more like, for "upside the head" or "on your bones". Oct 20, 2007
chained_bear Really? You think so? Hmm. I LURVE that sound, but I wouldn't have called it a whomp. Which raises the question... what else would one call it?
Whumpf?
Hmm...
P.s. "fell beast" is gorgeous, innit? Oct 20, 2007
yarb The noise made by the wingbeats of the fell beasts ridden by the Nazgul in the Lord of the Rings movie. Oct 19, 2007