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thud

noun
/ˈθʌd/

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”).

  1. derived from *tūk-✻ — “to beat”
  2. derived from *þūhaną✻
  3. inherited from *þuddijaną✻
  4. inherited from þyddan — “to strike, press, thrust”
  5. inherited from thudden — “to strike with a weapon”

Definitions

  1. The sound of a dull impact.

    • 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.

  2. A hard, dull impact.

    • 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, […]

  3. A slower, dull impact with a wide surface area.

    • It still wasn’t what I’d call painful but as he swung his arm and the strands of the flogger hit me together it felt like a solid thud rather than a number of different tails stinging me.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To make the sound of a dull impact.

      • 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.
      • […] 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.

    2. Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter.

      • The aircraft with the most threatening mission and highest loss rate was the F-105 Thunderchief. Of 833 "Thuds" built, 382 were lost between 1965-1972.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA