thud

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”).

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• IPA^(key): /ˈθʌd/
• Rhymes: -ʌd

thud (plural thuds)

1. 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, London, OCLC 60623878, 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.

2. (US, military, dated slang) Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter.

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thud (third-person singular simple present thuds, present participle thudding, simple past and past participle thudded)

1. 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.

• (a dull sound, to make a dull sound): flump, plunk

• clang, clash, crash

thud

1. change

Probably from Sanskrit दुग्ध (dugdhá, “milk”). Compare Hindi दूध (dūdha, “milk”) and Punjabi ਦੁੱਧ (dudhdh, “milk”).

thud m

1. milk

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /θɨːd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /θiːd/

thud

1. Aspirate mutation of tud.