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wumph

wumph is the alternative form of whump.

Meaning of whump

Noun

whump (countable and uncountable, plural whumps)

  1. (countable, informal) A soft thumping sound.
  2. (slang, uncountable) A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering.
    • By embracing dark genres of slash such as ‘squick’ and ‘whump’, the art of mythagowood purposely skirts parameters of taste and acceptability.2014, Joseph Brennan, “'Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies': Nonnies in the online slash closet”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 17, number 4, page 365

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Forms of wumph

pluralwumphs

Questions about wumph

What is wumph the alternative form of?
Wumph is the alternative form of whump.

Words near wumph in the dictionary

  1. wumao
  2. wumaos
  3. Wuming
  4. wumman
  5. wummen
  6. wumph
  7. wumphs
  8. wumpi
  9. wumpus
  10. wumpuses
  11. wun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wumph (page history and authors); whump (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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