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Trumping vs Thumping - What's the difference?

trumping | thumping |

As verbs the difference between trumping and thumping

is that trumping is while thumping is .

As an adjective thumping is

(informal) exceptional in some degree.

As a noun thumping is

a dull, heavy sound.

trumping

English

Verb

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    • thumping

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Exceptional in some degree.

    • Noun

  • A dull, heavy sound.
  • * 1941 , Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died
    • There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
  • A beating.
    • He received a thumping from the school bully.
  • * 1824 , William Craig Brownlee, A careful and free inquiry into the true nature and tendency of the religious principles of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers
    • 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.
  • (sports) A heavy defeat.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 11 , author=Jonathan Stevenson , title=West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=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. }}

    Synonyms

    * (heavy defeat) thrashing

    Verb

    (head)