flump vs plop what difference

what is difference between flump and plop

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flʌmp/

Verb

flump (third-person singular simple present flumps, present participle flumping, simple past and past participle flumped)

1. (intransitive) To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.
2. (transitive) To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.

Translations

Noun

flump (plural flumps)

1. The dull sound so produced.
2. A type of large marshmallow.
3. (by extension) A fat out-of-shape person.

Synonyms

• plunk, thud

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• Pflum

English

Etymology

Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant of plap.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

plop (plural plops)

1. A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.

   He heard the plops of rain on the roof.

2. (Britain, slang) excrement; derived from the “plop” sound made when it hits water in a toilet.

Translations

Verb

plop (third-person singular simple present plops, present participle plopping, simple past and past participle plopped)

1. To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
   • 2012, Augusta Trobaugh, Music From Beyond The Moon (page 43)

     Stooping, she picked up another pebble, sounded out the word again, and tossed it into the shallow water near the path, where it plopped into the water, sending out circles from where it fell.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To land heavily or loosely.

   He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.

   • 2009, Reif Larson, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, p. 37:

     There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.

3. (Britain) To defecate; derived from the “plop” sound made when excrement hits water in a toilet.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lopp

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• plopu, plup, plupu, pljop, pljopu, pliop, pliopu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ploppus from classical Latin pōpulus. Compare Romanian plop.

Noun

plop m (plural plochi)

1. poplar

Romanian

Alternative forms

• pleop

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ploppus, from classical Latin pōpulus. Compare Italian pioppo.

Noun

plop m (plural plopi)

1. poplar

   Pe lângă plopii fără soț, adesea am trecut.

   By the pairless poplars, often have I passed.

Declension

References

• plop in DEX online – Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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