cudgelling vs thumping

cudgelling

noun

  • A beating with a cudgel. 

thumping

noun

  • A beating. 

  • A dull, heavy sound. 

  • A heavy defeat. 

adj

  • Exceptional in some degree. 

How often have the words cudgelling and thumping occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )