different between hump vs whump

English

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Dutch homp (“hump, lump”) or Middle Low German hump (“heap, hill, stump”), from Old Saxon *hump (“hill, heap, thick piece”), from Proto-Germanic *humpaz (“hip, height”), from Proto-Indo-European *kumb- (“curved”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK) IPA^(key): /h?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

hump (plural humps)

1. A mound of earth.
2. A speed hump.
3. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
4. (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
5. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
6. (Britain, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.

   She's got the hump with me.

   Go away! You're giving me the right hump.

7. (slang) A painfully boorish person.

   That guy is such a hump!

8. A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.

Synonyms

• (abnormal deformity of the spine): gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchback

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hump (third-person singular simple present humps, present participle humping, simple past and past participle humped)

1. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
3. to rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse
   1. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.

   2. (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
4. (US, slang, dated) To prepare for a great exertion; to put forth effort.
5. (slang, dated) To vex or annoy.
6. (rail transport) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.

Synonyms

• (to carry): heft, shoulder, tote; see also Thesaurus:carry
• (to go on foot): hike, trek, walk; see also Thesaurus:walk
• (to have sex): bang, bone, ride, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with
• (to vex): bother, irk, rile; see also Thesaurus:annoy

Derived terms

• dry-hump
• hump it

Translations

Anagrams

• phum, umph

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.

Noun

hump m (definite singular humpen, indefinite plural humper, definite plural humpene)

1. a bump or hump (e.g. in a road)

Derived terms

• fartshump

References

• “hump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.

Noun

hump m (definite singular humpen, indefinite plural humpar, definite plural humpane)

1. a bump or hump (e.g. in a road)

Derived terms

• fartshump

References

• “hump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

whump (plural whumps)

1. (informal) A thumping sound.
2. (fandom slang) A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering.
   • 2014, Joseph Brennan, "'Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies': Nonnies in the online slash closet", International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 17, Number 4 (2014), page 365:

     By embracing dark genres of slash such as ‘squick’ and ‘whump’, the art of mythagowood purposely skirts parameters of taste and acceptability.

   • 2018, Naja Later, "Quality Television (TV) Eats Itself: The TV-Auteur and the Promoted Fanboy", Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Volume 35, Number 6 (2018), page 540:

     Narrative devices shared by Hannibal and fanfiction include “whump,” the vivid abuse and torture of a character, a popular convention across certain types of fanfiction: Graham is knocked out, shot, stabbed, gutted, sawed open, and subjected to induced seizures.

   • 2019, Adrienne E. Raw, "Normalizing Disability: Tagging and Disability Identity Construction through Marvel Cinematic Universe Fanfiction", Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Volume 8, Number 2, April 2019, pages 202-203:

     However, further research with a larger sample and encompassing more fandoms would be necessary to confirm this potential explanation of this trend and to explore the impact of other factors, such as assigning characters a physical and/or mental disability or illness for the purpose of whump or hurt/comfort stories.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:whump.

Verb

whump (third-person singular simple present whumps, present participle whumping, simple past and past participle whumped)

1. (informal, transitive) To strike something with a whump.