thundering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of thunder

   ...Mr. Crofts (that was the name of my brute) was gone out of the house, after waiting till he had tired his patience for Mrs. Brown's return, they came thundering up-stairs...

   Fanny Hill

   1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

comparative more thundering · superlative most thundering

1. Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by thunder.
2. Producing a noise or effect like thunder; thunderous.
3. colloquialVery great; extraordinary.

   “I think it had a thundering lot to do with the story I am considering now,” said Father Brown.

   1927, G. K. Chesterton, The Secret of Father Brown

comparative more thundering · superlative most thundering

1. colloquialVery great; extraordinarily.

   "As long as there are any of us left sound and healthy we've got a chance - a thundering good chance."

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 112

plural thunderings

1. A loud percussive sound, like thunder.

   I listened while God seemed to speak through the thunderings of the great cataract before me.

   1833, Bela Bates Edwards, Memoir of the Rev. Elias Cornelius, page 275

2. archaicA thunderstorm.