1851–61. H. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, vol. I., p. 232. He [patterer] mostly chalks a signal on or near the door. I give one or two instances.… ‘Flummut,’ sure of a month in quod. [[37]]
Flump, verb. (colloquial).—To fall, put, or be set, down with violence or a thumping noise. Onomatopœic. Also to come down with a Flump. Cf., Plump and Cachunk.
1840. Thackeray, Paris Sketch Book, ch. v. Chairs were flumped down on the floor.
1865. H. Kingsley, The Hillyars and the Burtons, ch. lxii. Before my mother had been a week in the partly-erected slab-house, the women began to come in, to flump down into a seat and tell her all about it.
Flunk, subs. (American colloquial).—1. An idler, a Loafer (q.v.) or Lawrence (q.v.).
2. (Also Flunk-out).—A failure, especially (at college) in recitations; a backing out of undertakings.
1853. Songs of Yale. In moody meditation sunk, Reflecting on my future flunk.
1877. Brunonian, 24th Feb. A flunk is a complete fizzle; and a dead flunk is where one refuses to get out of his seat.
1888. Missouri Republican, 11th Feb. Riddleberger forced the presidential possibilities of the senate to a complete flunk.
Verb. (American).—To retire through fear; to fail (as in a lesson); to cause to fail. Cf., Funk.