flump
/flʌmp/interjection, noun, verb
flump is an interjection meaning “A sound of something moving or falling heavily, or with a dull sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-M-P, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does flump mean?
interjection
- 1
A sound of something moving or falling heavily, or with a dull sound.
noun
- 1
An instance of the dull sound so produced.
- 2
A type of large marshmallow.
- 3
A fat out-of-shape person.
verb
- 1
To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.
- 2
To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flump?
- /flʌmp/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flump.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flump
- flumpf
- flumps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- flumping participle, present
- flumped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flump?
Flump appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flump come from?
Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).