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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English thonderynge, þoundryng, equivalent to thunder + -ing.
Verb
thundering
- present participle and gerund of thunder
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: for G. Fenton , →OCLC:...Mr. Crofts (that was the name of my brute) was gone out of the house, after waiting till he had tired his patience for Mrs. Brown's return, they came thundering up-stairs...
Adjective
thundering (comparative more thundering, superlative most thundering)
- Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by thunder.
- Producing a noise or effect like thunder; thunderous.
- (colloquial) Very great; extraordinary.
1927, G. K. Chesterton, The Secret of Father Brown:“I think it had a thundering lot to do with the story I am considering now,” said Father Brown.
Etymology 2
From Middle English thundryng, þondring, from Old English þunring (“thundering; thunder”), equivalent to thunder + -ing.
Noun
thundering (plural thunderings)
- A loud percussive sound, like thunder.
1833, Bela Bates Edwards, Memoir of the Rev. Elias Cornelius, page 275:I listened while God seemed to speak through the thunderings of the great cataract before me.
- (archaic) A thunderstorm.
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