thumping

thump·ing (th

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adj. Informal

Outstanding in size, degree, or quality: a thumping success; a thumping party.

thumping·ly adv.

thumping [ˈθʌmpɪŋ]

adj

(prenominal) Slang huge or excessive a thumping loss

thumpingly adv

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Noun	1.	thumping - a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) clunk, thud, thump, clump sound - the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them"
Adj.	1.	thumping - (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" banging, humongous, walloping, whopping colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"

thumping

adjective (Slang) huge, massive, enormous, great, impressive, tremendous, excessive, terrific, thundering (slang), titanic, gigantic, monumental, mammoth, colossal, whopping (informal), stellar (informal), exorbitant, gargantuan, fuck-off (offensive taboo slang), elephantine, humongous or humungous (U.S. slang) The gloom deepened after a thumping £145 million loss.
insignificant, negligible, petty, trivial, trifling, meagre, paltry, inconsequential, measly (informal), piddling (informal)

Translations

thumping [ˈθʌmpɪŋ] (Brit)

A. ADJ → enorme, descomunal
the company has suffered a thumping loss this year → este año la compañía ha sufrido unas pérdidas enormes or descomunales
a thumping headache → una jaqueca terrible

B. ADV a thumping great book → un tocho de libro

thumping [ˈθʌmpɪŋ] adj (British) (= whopping) [majority] → écrasant(e); [loss, defeat] → retentissant(e)
elected with a thumping majority → élu(e) à une écrasante majorité

thumping

adj (inf: also thumping great) → kolossal, enorm

thumping [ˈθʌmpɪŋ] (Brit) (fam)

1. adj a thumping headache → un mal di testa martellante

2. adv it's a thumping great book → è un libro enorme

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" said the colonel, thumping the table; "and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill pe vell.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Michael sat on his haunches, the length of his lower jaw resting on Daughtry's knee, the while his eyes dilated, contracted and glowed, his ears ever pricking and repricking to listen, his stump tail thumping ecstatically on the floor.

Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context

Above the muffled roar of conversation, the dismal wailings of babies at night, the thumping of feet in unseen corridors and rooms, mingled with the sound of varied hoarse shoutings in the street and the rattling of wheels over cobbles, they heard the screams of the child and the roars of the mother die away to a feeble moaning and a subdued bass muttering.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen View in context

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