Thud
/θʌd/noun
A dull, heavy sound made by a solid object hitting something.
Did you know?Thud is an imitative word, and its earliest recorded use in English is relatively late, showing how speakers sometimes invent sound-words on the spot to capture a physical force.
Etymological Timeline
Early Modern English
English
thud
“a dull, heavy impact sound”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*þud-
“no securely established ancestral form is known; the English word is generally treated as echoic”
Modern English
English
thud
“a dull, heavy sound or the impact that makes it”
Modern English
English
thud
“to make or strike with a dull, heavy sound”