thumping (n.)
- banging
- barrage
- beat
- beating
- behemoth
- dreadful
- drum
- drumbeat
- drumfire
- drumming
- flutter
- fluttering
- great
- howling
- jumbo
- mammoth
- palpitation
- paradiddle
- patter
- perfect
- pitter-patter
- pound
- pounding
- pulsation
- rat-a-tat
- rat-tat
- rataplan
- roll
- rousing
- rub-a-dub
- ruff
- ruffle
- spanking
- spatter
- spattering
- splutter
- sputter
- sputtering
- tat-tat
- tattoo
- terrible
- throb
- throbbing
- thrum
- ticking
- tom-tom
- utter
- walloping
- whacking
thumping (adj.)
- awful
- banging
- beat
- colossal
- complete
- deadly
- dreadful
- drum
- elephantine
- enormous
- fearful
- flutter
- frightful
- gargantuan
- gigantic
- great
- horrible
- howling
- huge
- immense
- jumbo
- mammoth
- massive
- monumental
- palpitant
- perfect
- pound
- roll
- rousing
- ruff
- spanking
- staccato
- stupendous
- terrible
- terrific
- throbbing
- thundering
- ticking
- titanic
- unmitigated
- utter
- walloping
- whacking
- whopping
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves, by thumping on your back,
His sense of your great merit,
Is such a friend that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
