colloq. [onomatopœic; cf. dump, flop, plump, slump. Not in Johnson, or Webster, 1864.]
1. intr. To fall or move heavily with a dull noise.
1816. G. Colman, Br. Grins, Mr. Champernowne, viii.
| Yet since the beefeater had eyes, | |
| He saw the courtiers kneel to rise, | |
| And therefore thought it not unwise | |
| To join in flumping down. |
1823. Moor, Suffolk Words, s.v. A hawk flumps or flops on a bird.
1838. Thackeray, Yellowpl. Corr., ii. She [Mrs. Shum] said nothink in answer, but flumps past me. Ibid. (1861), in Cornh. Mag., June, 649. A little Skye-terrier dog with a red collar, who as soon as she sees Philip, sings, squeaks, whines, runs, jumps, flumps up on him, if I may use the expression, kisses his hands, and with eyes, tongue, paws, and tail shows him a thousand marks of welcome and affection.
2. trans. To set or throw down with a dump.
1830. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. IV. (1863), 182. Flumping himself down in the midst of a tuft of cowslips.
1840. Thackeray, Paris Sk. Bk. (1872), 49. Chairs were flumped down on the floor.
1866. St. James’s Mag., XVII. Oct., 345. She flumped herself down in the car.
b. To bump or strike (a saddle). In quot. absol.
1894. Daily News, 20 June, 6/4. This is a very different thing from jerking and flumping in the canter.
3. The vb. stem used advb. With a flump.
1790. Grose, Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), s.v. He came flump down. South.
1841. T. T. T., Porcelain Tower, 103.
| He cut it midway through—part fell down flump, | |
| And part was left outstanding from the stump. |
