thumping
/ˈθʌmpɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure."
- "They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade[.]"
- "There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house."
- "He received a thumping from the school bully."
- "And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews."
- "Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation."