'thud' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use 'thud' to describe a dull, heavy sound, such as a large object falling or being dropped. For example, "She heard a loud thud from the attic as something heavy fell to the floor."
We were downstairs having breakfast - Golden Grahams quite possibly - (don't get me started on the British and the breakfast cereal) when a dull thud on the hall floor announced the arrival of the hamster who had taken his new-found freedoms too far and hurled himself off the landing.
The video is disturbing: you can hear the thud of stick on skull as the keeper beats the buzzards to death.
A noise-rock band, the Telescopes, signed to Creation Records, rehearsed on the estate, and he sat outside the house for hours listening to the dull thud of their practice.
Even the leaves are noisy, falling around the deck of my beautiful treehouse with a thud.
Instead of trying hard to avoid them in the first place, it is designed to recover quickly from the occasional thud against the wall, and resume flying.
The political drama in Delhi was played out against the distant thud of a crashing stockmarket.
THE dull thud of mortar shells echoes across the barren mountains separating Turkey from Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
Almost every night, mortar shells thud into the American airbase.
Rather than trying to match Airbus's double-decker, the A380, with another super-jumbo, the American aerospace giant will develop a long-range jet capable of reaching 95% of the speed of sound.Britain's plan to reform Railtrack, the company that owns the track and the stations, hit the stockmarket with a thud.
America's top judges reject 99% of the briefs that thud into their in-tray, but can they dare to ignore this one?
Yet this summer's turmoil has dropped asset-price worries on to central bankers' desks with a thud.
