pound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: pounds
form: pounding
form: pounded
form: pounded
form: poun
form: pown
Etymology: From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūn- (“broken pieces, rubble”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), West Frisian pún (“debris, rubble”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”).
Senses: examples: text: She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: [...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railways and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:
text: I pounded on a farmhouse / Lookin' for a place to stay / I was mighty, mighty tired / I had come a long, long way
ref: 1964, Bob Dylan, “Motorpsycho Nitemare”:
synonyms: word: hammer
word: pelt
word: bang
word: baste
word: batter
word: beat
word: belabor
word: blow
word: boom-boom
word: buffet
word: butt
word: calcitrate
word: dab
word: dash
word: dowse
word: fetch one a blow
word: flap
word: give toco
word: kick
word: knock
word: hammer
word: hit
word: impact
word: jerk
word: lunge
word: patter
word: pat
word: pelt
word: pink
word: poke
word: pummel
word: punch
word: pound
word: tap
word: thrash
word: thump
word: thwack
word: rap
word: slam
word: slap
word: smite
word: strike
word: swap
word: vapulate
word: whack
word: whip
word: yerk
glosses: To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
examples: text: Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]
ref: 1887, Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition, page 67:
text: It was the hour before the first crowing of the cocks, and along with Nyo Boto and Grandma Yaisa's clattering, the first sound the child heard was the muted, rhythmic bombpabombpabomp of wooden pestles as the other women of the village pounded couscous grain in their mortars, preparing the traditional breakfast of porridge that was cooked in earthen pots over a fire built among three rocks.
ref: 1976, Alex Haley, chapter 1, in Roots: The Saga of an American Family:
synonyms: pulverate
triturate
glosses: To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
examples: text: You really pounded that beer!
text: The sounds of a house-party rolled down the street / So we pounded our Pilsner and leapt to our feet
ref: 2007, “Fire Marshall Willy”, performed by The Dreadnoughts:
synonyms: word: bolt
word: down
word: chug
word: eat
word: have
word: fret
word: drink
word: hydrate
word: imbibe
word: wet one's whistle
word: wet one's beak
glosses: To eat or drink very quickly.
examples: text: The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To pitch consistently to a certain location.
examples: text: As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent.
text: My head was pounding.
text: It was now about three o’clock in the morning and Francis Macomber, who had been asleep a little while after he had stopped thinking about the lion, wakened and then slept again, woke suddenly, frightened in a dream of the bloody-headed lion standing over him, and listening while his heart pounded, he realized that his wife was not in the other cot in the tent.
ref: 1936, Ernest Hemingway, The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber:
text: I can't let go, you're like the chemical
You're racing through me
My heart just pounds, pounds, pounds...
ref: 2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Dave Bassett, Brian West, “Beating Me Up”, in Fight Song, performed by Rachel Platten:
qualifier: generally heart; blood; or head; generally heart; blood; or head
glosses: To beat strongly or throb.
raw_tags: of a body part
examples: text: I was pounding her all night!
text: She acting, so I'm attacking, try break the mattress / Sexy, so I suggested to switch to sideways / Pounded for 'bout a hour she said she tired
ref: 2008, Gucci Mane, “Bachelor Pad”, in The Movie:
synonyms: word: drill
word: get up in
word: nail
word: poke
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
examples: text: We pounded along, stopped, landed soldiers; went on, landed custom–house clerks to levy toll in what looked like a God–forsaken wilderness, with a tin shed and a flag–pole lost in it; landed more soldiers—to take care of the custom–house clerks, presumably.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
glosses: To advance heavily with measured steps.
examples: text: The engine pounds.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To make a jarring noise, as when running.
Synonyms: english: to strike a blow with the hand/fist
translation: to strike a blow with the hand/fist
word: buffet
Derived terms: enough sense to pound sand into a rathole
ground and pound
pound a beat
pound dirt
pound down
pounding
pound out
pound salt
pound sand
pound sand into a rathole
pound the pavement
pound the table
pound town
pound up
pulse-pounding
take to pound town
Related terms: bang