different between whump vs whomp

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.

English

Etymology

Perhaps a variant of whip, similar to whup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Verb

whomp (third-person singular simple present whomps, present participle whomping, simple past and past participle whomped)

1. (slang) Hit extremely hard.

   If you don’t cut that out, I’m going to whomp you so hard your head will spin!

Derived terms

• whompage
• whomp on
• whomp up

See also

• (hit extremely hard): whip, whup