thud
English
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
thud (plural thuds)
- The sound of a dull impact.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 3, in Moonfleet (fiction), London: Edward Arnold:
- 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.
- 2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in w:The Guardian[1], London, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2018:
- Ramos had locked Salah’s right arm and turned him, judo-style, as they lost balance going for the same ball. Television replays hardened the suspicion it was a calculated move on Ramos’s part and, when Salah landed with a hell of a thud, the damage was considerable.
- (US, military, dated slang) Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
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Verb
thud (third-person singular simple present thudd, present participle ing, simple past and past participle thudded)
- To make the sound of a dull impact.
- 1849, George Frederick Ruxton, Life in the Far West (non-fiction), New York: Harper & Brothers, page 183:
- 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.
- 1874, Mrs George Cupples, “Mrs Glen and the Aberfoyle Orphanage”, in The Poetical Remains of William Glen, Edinburgh: William Paterson, page 47:
- […] 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.
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Verb
thud
Romani
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Etymology
From Sanskrit दुग्ध (dugdhá, “milk”). Compare Hindi दूध (dūdh, “milk”) and Punjabi ਦੁੱਧ (duddha, “milk”).
Noun
thud m
Welsh
Pronunciation
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Noun
thud
- Aspirate mutation of tud.
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