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verb (used without object)
3.
to strike or fall with a dull sound of heavy impact.
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Origin:
1505–15; imitative; compare Middle English thudden, Old English thyddan to strike, press
1505–15; imitative; compare Middle English thudden, Old English thyddan to strike, press
Related forms
thud·ding·ly, adverb
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Word Origin & History
thud
O.E. þyddan "to strike, thrust," of imitative origin. Sense of "hit with a dull sound" first recorded 1796. The noun is attested from 1513.
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thud definition
1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was "foo", "bar", "thud", "blat".
2. Rare term for the hash character, "#" (ASCII 35). See ASCII for other synonyms.
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