ecky thumpとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Introduced in "Kung Fu Kapers", a 1975 episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. In the episode, "ecky thump" is a secret Lancastrian martial art using black puddings as a weapon.

間投詞

ecky thump

1. (humorous, colloquial) Exclamation of surprise or pleasure, supposedly part of a Northern English dialect.
   • 1985, Keith Waterhouse, Waterhouse At Large.

     […] its bellowing cry of Ecky thump! sounded much friendlier than […]

   • The Guardian, Sunday June 10 2007, Kitty Empire

     The latest Stripes album title, a play on the Lancastrian exclamation Ecky thump! is, in part, a gasp of surprise...

   • 2001, Cyril Morris, Morgi, page 122:

     Ecky thump! I've never tasted anything as good.