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Examples

  • It was just that whenever the object of my affections came into a room, my heart went kathump and I thought about her all of the time when she wasn't around.

    Yo, Yo! susan 2008

  • I hope that when Yo is fifteen, he will have plenty of things that make his heart go kathump and I hope he will have lots of courage and love himself first and foremost.

    Yo, Yo! susan 2008

  • Then he heard fast turning wheels coming "Kathump, kathump."

    Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922

  • I'd also like to have a face sanded flat on my non-inflating tires, because I really dig the kathump kathump noise it makes.

    Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy 2009

  • Rose pushes him all the way down and his head flops into the pillow with a whumping sound that startles him and he wonders at that, the thing that makes a solid object, his head, hit a soft and yielding one, and make a whump and not a kathump or a phut and then she’s, oh good heavens, she’s straddling him.

    So Excited! amberfocus 2008

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