whumpとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ʍʌmp/, /wʌmp/
• 韻: -ʌmp

名詞

whump (countable and uncountable, plural whumps)

1. (informal, countable) A soft thumping sound.
2. (fandom slang, uncountable) A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering.
   • 2014, Joseph Brennan, “'Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies': Nonnies in the online slash closet”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 17, number 4, page 365:

     By embracing dark genres of slash such as ‘squick’ and ‘whump’, the art of mythagowood purposely skirts parameters of taste and acceptability.

   • 2018, Naja Later, “Quality Television (TV) Eats Itself: The TV-Auteur and the Promoted Fanboy”, in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, volume 35, number 6, page 540:

     Narrative devices shared by Hannibal and fanfiction include “whump,” the vivid abuse and torture of a character, a popular convention across certain types of fanfiction: Graham is knocked out, shot, stabbed, gutted, sawed open, and subjected to induced seizures.

   • 2019 April, Adrienne E. Raw, “Normalizing Disability: Tagging and Disability Identity Construction through Marvel Cinematic Universe Fanfiction”, in Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, volume 8, number 2, pages 202–203:

     However, further research with a larger sample and encompassing more fandoms would be necessary to confirm this potential explanation of this trend and to explore the impact of other factors, such as assigning characters a physical and/or mental disability or illness for the purpose of whump or hurt/comfort stories.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:whump.

下位語

• (fandom slang): hurt/comfort

動詞

whump (third-person singular simple present whumps, present participle whumping, simple past and past participle whumped)

1. (informal, transitive) To strike something with a whump.
2. To make a soft thumping sound.
   • 1963, Eugene Keenan Garber, M'Ginnis (page 261)

     […] the sound of sheets drying on a line a windy day: whumping, whushing.

アナグラム

• wumph