thundering meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

thundering

adj

Etymology From Middle English thonderynge, þoundryng, equivalent to thunder + -ing.

Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by thunder.

Producing a noise or effect like thunder; thunderous.

Colloquial Very great; extraordinary.

“I think it had a thundering lot to do with the story I am considering now,” said Father Brown.1927, G. K. Chesterton, The Secret of Father Brown:

adv

Etymology From Middle English thonderynge, þoundryng, equivalent to thunder + -ing.

Colloquial Very great; extraordinarily.

"As long as there are any of us left sound and healthy we've got a chance - a thundering good chance."1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 112:

noun

Etymology From Middle English thundryng, þondring, from Old English þunring (“thundering; thunder”), equivalent to thunder + -ing.

A loud percussive sound, like thunder.

I listened while God seemed to speak through the thunderings of the great cataract before me.1833, Bela Bates Edwards, Memoir of the Rev. Elias Cornelius, page 275:

Archaic A thunderstorm.

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