FLUMP

plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump

(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; “He planked the money on the table”; “He planked himself into the sofa”

flump, flump down

(verb) fall heavily

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

flump (third-person singular simple present flumps, present participle flumping, simple past and past participle flumped)

(intransitive) To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.

(transitive) To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.

Noun

flump (plural flumps)

The dull sound so produced.

A type of large marshmallow.

(by extension) A fat out-of-shape person.

Synonyms

• plunk, thud

Anagrams

• Pflum

Source: Wiktionary



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According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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