flumpf

1. alternativeAlternative form of flump.

   A man fell out of the sky and landed at my feet today. Plooff! As easy as you please he sailed down and then, flumpf! He landed.

   2014 July 4, Edith Hicks, chapter 2, in I Am Hannah Flockner, ASIN B00LK36LVI

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   The wind caught the reserve canopy, billowed it out. For a hideous instant, he thought the reserve lines would wrap around the mains and he’d repeat Komarov’s messy death. Then—Flumpf! The reserve canopy snapped open, seemed to yank him skyward.

   2007 September 5, David S. Michaels, Daniel Brenton, “March 25, 1969: Over the Gobi Desert, Outer Mongolia”, in Red Moon, Barrington, N.H.: Breakneck Books, →ISBN, page 251

   This time he had the grenade launcher, and it was as ready as he was. He held the rifle near his hip and squeezed the trigger on the launcher. Flumpf! The grenade lobbed out of the barrel and crashed into the pavement in the dead center of the remaining crowd.

   2010 August 25, Rob Ruediger, “A Cure for Jake”, in Severed 2: The Rapture, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 318

   He paused in front of the sofa, holding his breath as one long claw emerged from beneath it. The pod was getting ready to make a run for it. It was now or never. Angus carefully laid his baseball bat to one side, waiting for the right moment to pounce, then—Flumpf! “Gotcha!” He flung himself on top of the malicious pod, squashing it flat.

   2014 May 6, Anne Cameron, “A Christmas Podding”, in The Storm Tower Thief (The Lightning Catcher; 2), New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, →ISBN, page 14

plural flumpfs

1. alternativeAlternative form of flump.

   A flumpf of falling snow makes me look up and then Steve shouts. I see a flash of silver; it must be a real springer.

   2016 September 22, Louise Gray, “The Leaper”, in The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing to Eat, London; New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Natural History, →ISBN, page 257

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   It was true enough that Thomasina was on her terrace and looking into his apartment, although spying was a harsh word. “I’ll fix that,” Steve said. He moved over in full view of Thomasina and let the Venetian blind down with a flumpf.

   1949, Isabella Taves, “That Unpredictable Look”, in The American Magazine, volume CXLVII, Springfield, Oh.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 3

   Murphy barked again, sat down with a flumpf on the metal deck, and began scratching behind his ear with his back leg.

   2020 November 9, Jim Genzano, Tree and Beast (A Stranger World Adventure; 1), →ISBN

present singular third person flumpfs · participle present flumpfing · participle past flumpfed · past flumpfed

1. alternativeAlternative form of flump.

   Abruptly, Cleo flumpfed down onto one of the chairs, her ears ringing unpleasantly.

   2010, Sue Moorcroft, chapter 44, in All That Mullarkey, Camberley, Surrey: Choc Lit Limited, →ISBN, page 298

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   He sniffs himself suspiciously and then flumpfs into the couch, still wearing his peel.

   2008, Lauren Beukes, “Lerato”, in Moxyland, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Angry Robot, published 2010, →ISBN, page 69

   I put down my muesli mid-guzzle and flumpfed into a kitchen chair, all the get-out-of-the-house adrenaline leaving my body with an almost audible whoosh.

   2013, Cory Doctorow, chapter 12, in Homeland, New York, N.Y.: Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 264