Crossword clues for thud
thud
- Bad joke's sound?
- You may hit the ground with it
- You could come down with it
- Whomp relative
- Ungentle landing
- Sound of a none-too-gentle landing
- Sound of a faceplant
- Sound of a bad joke?
- Pound sound?
- Mic drop sound
- Low-impact sound
- Kin of kerplunk
- Kerplunk's kin
- Heavy falling sound
- Graceless landing sound
- Face-plant sound
- Dull, heavy sound
- Clunk cousin
- Ungraceful landing sound
- The sound a tree makes when it falls in a forest and no one is around
- Stage dive sound
- Springsteen "His body hit the street with such a beautiful ___"
- Sound when a tree falls in a forest and someone is around to hear it
- Sound right after a knockout punch
- Sound of something landing
- Sound of heavy impact
- Sound of dull impact
- Sound of an ungraceful landing
- Sound of a mic drop
- Sound of a less-than-graceful landing
- Sound of a landing
- Sound of a hard landing
- Sound of a dull landing
- Sound in a game of horseshoes
- Sound from the landing?
- Shot-put sound
- Nickname for the Vietnam War's F-105 fighter plane
- Muted crash
- Muffled impact sound
- More than a plop
- Kin of splat and plop
- It sounds dull
- Hitting-the-ground sound
- Heavy thump
- Heavy impact
- Heavy fall sound
- Dull sound when something hits the floor
- Dull sound made by a falling body
- Dull sound effect
- Dull impact noise
- Dull impact
- Dull heavy noise
- Down-to-earth sound
- Crash landing sound
- Collapsing sound
- Clumsy landing
- Fall sound
- Sound of collapse
- None-too-gentle landing
- Dull sound of impact
- Bomb's sound
- Cousin of plop
- Dull blow
- Result of a failure
- Fall follower?
- Sound of impact
- A big person may come down with it
- Dropping sound
- Faint sound?
- Impact sound
- Fall's end
- It may be made by a falling rock
- Fall heavily
- Definitely not the sound of success
- Sound of a failure
- Sound after dropping off?
- Land heavily
- Graceless landing, say
- Landing sound
- What a load might land with
- Heavy-landing sound
- Evidence of a hard landing
- A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
- Sound of a heavy fall
- Sound in a Spillane book
- Clunk's kin
- Sound in a whodunit
- Sound of a fall
- Heavy sound
- Falling sound
- Sound in a horror film
- It's usually dull
- Flump's cousin
- Sound of a sandbag hitting the ground
- It's often dull
- Sound made by impact of heavy objects
- Heavy dull sound
- Dull sound of something hitting the ground
- Dull impact sound
- Dull heavy sound
- Loud noise
- Dull noise
- Sound of a flop
- Sound of a dull impact
- Impact noise
- Heavy impact sound
- Sound of an impact
- Sound of a heavy landing
- Dull thump
- Sound of a dull drop
- Hard-landing sound
- Sound of a heavy impact
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thud \Thud\ (th[u^]d), n. [Cf. AS. [thorn][=o]den a whirlwind, violent wind, or E. thump.] A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.
At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose.
--Jeffrey.
At intervals there came some tremendous thud on the
side of the steamer.
--C. Mackay.
Thud \Thud\ (th[u^]d), v. i. & t. To make, or strike so as to make, a dull sound, or thud.
Hardly the softest thudding of velvety pads.
--A. C.
Doyle.
The waves break into spray, dash and rumble and thud
below your feet.
--H. F. Brown.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English þyddan "to strike, stab, thrust, press," of imitative origin. Sense of "hit with a dull sound" first recorded 1796. Related: Thudded; thudding. The noun is attested from 1510s as "blast of wind;" 1530s as "loud sound."
Wiktionary
n. 1 The sound of a dull impact. 2 (context US military dated slang English) Republic http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/F-105%20Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter. v
To make the sound of a dull impact.
WordNet
n. a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) [syn: thump, thumping, clump, clunk]
v. make a dull sound; "the knocker thudded against the front door" [syn: thump]
strike with a dull sound; "Bullets were thudding against the wall"
make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants [syn: crump, scrunch]
Wikipedia
Thud is Kevin Gilbert's debut album as a solo artist, and his last release before his accidental death in 1996.
Thud may refer to:
- An onomatopoeia of a collision
- Thud (game), a 2002 board game inspired by Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
- Thud!, a 2005 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett
- Thud (album), an album by Kevin Gilbert
- F-105 Thunderchief, a U.S. fighter-bomber, nicknamed Thud
- Thud!, a children's book by Nick Butterworth
- Thud, a fictional character in the animated film A Bug's Life
- Thud, a fictional character in the animated film series The Land Before Time
- Thud experiment, a 1973 study into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis
- a loud sound
Usage examples of "thud".
The door hinged smoothly shut behind me, muffling the music, and a body thudded against the frosted glass ahead with an abruptness that made me twitch.
The robots started off, the regular thudding of their footsteps silent in the airlessness, for the nonmetallic fabric of the insosuits did not transmit sound.
The remains of their aviso, now in two sections, thudding down either side of the ship, careered into them, the jagged edges of wood cutting flesh and the sheer force of the impact breaking bones.
The bondsman strode directly to the conference table, placing his briefcase on it with a resounding thud.
Patrol boats moved lazily in crisscross patterns, trailing explosive charges that boomed and thudded through the ocean.
Their wheezing breath was loud in the shuttered quiet of the street, but he could hear the snarling brabble of voices not far off and the thudding sound of feet.
His heart thudding with anticipation, Bubber turned the handle of the bell.
With sickening thuds, axes joined the cacophonous din of death and cleaved helms, opened skulls, spilled brains.
Anne dropped her heavy glass to shatter on the marble hearth and ran from the room, the sounds of her clunky boots thudding on the stairs gradually fading to silence.
Stamping and hopping about, suddenly more cheerful because of the sheer silliness of what she was doing, she started dancing with the sunbeams, kicking up swirls of strawdust, until she slipped and landed on her coccyx with a thud that jarred her brain.
A renewed flurry of spears and quarrels thudded against the cog, finding few targets.
The dalesman hit the floor with a muffled thud, his blood mixing with the dregs of the spilled wine.
A bullet whistled through the waving folds of the black cloak and thudded into the opened door of the safe, a foot from Driller Borson.
By the time he reached the Fauces Suburae his heart was thudding, and every part of him wanted to turn uphill, ride at the gallop to his home to make sure his family was unharmed.
Arthur could hear the thuds as the Fetchers threw themselves against the exit.