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the heart's favorite percussion, played without rehearsal or applause
means To strike or fall against something with a heavy, dull, resonant blow — or the muffled sound such a blow makes.
from An imitative word, born from the sound itself — the ear catching the dull, weighty blow and shaping it into a syllable. It surfaced in English around the 16th century, one of a family of echoic 'th-' and '-ump' words (thud, bump, thwack) that English keeps minting whenever something heavy meets something solid.
- onomatopoeia
- the word sounds like the sound it names
- heartbeat
- resting human heart thumps about 100,000 times daily
- rabbit signal
- rabbits thump hind legs to warn the warren
- old root
- likely coined to imitate a heavy blow
for instance
thump music genre — electronic dance music style originating in detroit in the 1990s with heavy bass emphasis
thump magazine — british music and culture magazine founded in 2000 by converse and spike jonze