thumpとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /θʌmp/
• 韻: -ʌmp

名詞

thump (複数形 thumps)

1. A blow that produces a muffled sound.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1:

     ... and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades, and be content.

   • 1710 January 4 (Gregorian calendar)​, Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], “Saturday, December 24, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 111; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], volume II, London stereotype edition, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, OCLC 69947324:

     The watchman gave so very great a thump at my door last night, that I awakened at the knock.

2. The sound of such a blow; a thud.
3. (dated, colloquial, euphemistic) Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.

   Where the thump have you been?!

動詞

thump (三人称単数 現在形 thumps, 現在分詞 thumping, 過去形および過去分詞形 thumped)

1. (transitive) To hit (someone または something) as if to make a thump.
   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd.

   • 2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1-3 Arsenal”, in BBC:

     Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.

2. (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.

   The cat thumped its tail in irritation.

3. (intransitive) To thud or pound.
4. (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
   • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

     Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

   Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.