thumping adj.
enormous, very large.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Panoplie of Epistles 402: He vseth great and thumping words [OED]. | |
| ‘Taylors Goose’ in Works (1869) I 109: The rip rap, thwick thwack thumping thunderer. | |
| ‘Courageous Betty of Chick-Lane’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1880) III 605: [She] valiantly fought, / With two thumping lusty Taylors, / Taking away their bodkin and shears. | |
| Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 261: A fifth would report, under a thumping Oath, that he had never worn a Waistcoat these seven Years. | |
| Gotham Election I i: Here’s your Godson, Sir, a fine thumping Boy. | |
| ‘Loving Couple’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) IV 231: But e’er three Months they had married been, / A Thumping Boy popp’d out. | |
| Tom Thumb Epilogue: I may prove, in time, a thumping Sinner. | |
| Bog-house Misc. 17: Nor M---k, nor will Dolly come; / Nor Sukey with her thumping B--m. | |
| Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 82: This is a thumping hole, by mass! | |
| et al. ‘Learned Pig’ in Festival of Anacreon (1810) 47: With a thumping colt’s-tooth in her head. | |
| Speed the Plough IV i: And han’t I a thumping zilver watch, almost as big as thy head? | |
| (trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) IV 74: Nothing vexes me, but that Antonia has not a thumping fortune to bring with her. | |
| Adventures of John Wetherell (1954) 18 Jan. 206: His brawny shoulders four feet square / his cheeks like thumping red potatoes. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Real Life in Ireland 16: Cheeks like thumping red potatoes. | |
| ‘Red Nosed Jemmy and Bandy Bet’ in Bawdy Songs (1975) 74: In nine months time, to crown her joy, / She brought in the world a thumping boy. | |
| Sligo Champion 11 Mar. 1/3: Paddy Lambert, a thumping, potato-faced Irishman. | |
| ‘Repeal of the Corn Laws’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 95: Such thumping loaves you soon will see. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bell’s Life in Sydney 23 Dec. 2/7: A thumping big Irish trap named Haydon. | |
| Paved with Gold 183: It seemed to be the general opinion that Mr. Tongs had overrated his capabilities, as he would find out by the ‘thumping damages’ when the cause came to be heard. | |
| Quite Alone III 82: I pay her a thumping salary. | |
| Billy O’ Bent’s Berryin’ 3: They’re so sma’ ’at nobry ’ud look for ’em beawt aw’d gi’ thee a thumpin’ reward. | |
| Lincs. Chron. 27 Nov. 6/7: [headline] A Thumping Legacy. | |
| ‘Yarn of the “Nancy Bell”’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 50: And having got rid of a thumping quid, / He spun this painful yarn. | |
| Dead Bird (Sydney) 27 July 1/3: And come back to Australian lands / With a ‘thumping contract’ in his hands. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 19 July 5/4: When courts are sitting and work is flush / I hurry about in a frantic rush. / I take your brief and I look to see / That the same is marked with a thumping fee. | |
| Pink ’Un and Pelican 191: He [...] retaliated by asking the Bench if it didn’t think it a d——d good name for one who had got through three thumping legacies! | |
| ‘In the Dead-Letter Office‘ in Bulletin Reciter n.p.: Come, rip the mail-bags open [...] A thumping mail again from Perth . | |
| Western Champion (Barcaldine, Qld) 16 Mar. 12/2: he was fined the thumping sum of £18 10s. | |
| ‘Weepin’ Willie’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 50: Well, they pinked him one fine mornin’ with a thumpin’ ’unk iv shell. | |
| Passage 271: My God, I’m giving a thumping big price for mine! | |
| Foveaux 75: He was returned year after year with a thumping majority. | |
 | ‘In a Bath Teashop’ in New Bats in Old Belfries She, such a very ordinary little woman; / He, such a thumping crook. | |
| My Friend Judas (1963) 107: An audience was to him the next best thing to a thumping cheque. | |
| ‘Sodden Fields’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 60: Puffing a thumping big King Edward corona. | |
| Guardian G2 7 Mar. 16: The sleepy district which last week defied electoral precedent and returned her with a thumping majority. |