Friday, October 06, 2006

Words: flump, flumping [AHED]

NOUN: A dull heavy sound, as of something dropped on a surface.
VERB: Inflected forms: flumped, flumpĀ·ing, flumps

INTRANSITIVE VERB: To move or fall heavily with a dull sound: flumped onto the sofa.
TRANSITIVE VERB: To place or drop with a flump.
ETYMOLOGY: Imitative.

(I'd never heard this one before. It resembles fall-like-a-lump, doesn't it? Flumping reminds me of the sound a pot of boiled red potatoes makes as I pour them already drained into my heavy clay beating bowl and the countertop resonates with thrumming, causing Twerpette to think someone is knocking at the door and sending her into a fit of barking.)

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