tromp
See also: Tromp
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹɒmp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Etymology 1
1892, variant of tramp.[1]
Verb
tromp (third-person singular simple present tromps, present participle tromping, simple past and past participle tromped)
- (chiefly US, transitive, intransitive) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
- Synonyms: march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample
- Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.
- The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays.
- 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:
- He lifted one foot and set it down again, whammo, but Ed was so engrossed in Pynchon's novel that all he recalls is tromping the scorpion to death with his stung foot, then quickly fetching a bucket of ice water, jamming the foot into it, and continuing to read.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
- Six groups of cocaleros had tromped through the campsite overnight.
- 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Black Knight), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch, scene: ending:
- BLACK KNIGHT TROMPED MOODILY THROUGH THE PLAINS. JUSTICE WOULD PREVAIL, IN THE END. AT LEAST HE'D ESCAPED THE MIRROR OF FATE.
- (informal) To utterly defeat an opponent.
- Synonyms: clobber, decimate, rout, trounce, whip
- The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.
Etymology 2
French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Compare trump, a trumpet.
Alternative forms
- trombe, trompe
Noun
tromp (plural tromps)
- A blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “tromp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Icelandic
Etymology
From English trump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʰrɔm̥p/
- Rhymes: -ɔm̥p
Noun
tromp n (genitive singular tromps, nominative plural tromp)
- (card games) trump
Declension
declension of tromp
n-s | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | tromp | trompið | tromp | trompin |
accusative | tromp | trompið | tromp | trompin |
dative | trompi | trompinu | trompum | trompunum |
genitive | tromps | trompsins | trompa | trompanna |
Middle English
Noun
tromp
- Alternative form of trumpe