thumpingly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English thumping

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English thumpingly

From thumping + -ly.

Adverb

thumpingly (comparative more thumpingly, superlative most thumpingly)

1. With thumping noises.

   He walked thumpingly up the stairs in his boots.

2. (informal) Extremely.
   • 1994, Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, page 169:

     It was a thumpingly tall ladder.

   • 2016 March 24, Sebastian Shakespeare, “'No-one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim': Moment Burma democracy heroine Suu Kyi lost her cool with BBC's Mishal Husain after being quizzed over violence towards Muslim minority”, in Daily Mail‎^[1], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 December 2025:

     But while often seen as a symbol of the BBC’s commitment to diversity, she is, herself, thumpingly posh.