1) Linus: I told her about how you're madly in love with her,Ĭharlie Brown: Aaugh!! 2) Snoopy: It's not the things that go 'bump' in the night that scare me. Also used by other members of the peanuts gang and can be used as a roaring sound to scare someone. Used frequently by Charlie Brown in the following situations: Losing a Baseball game, Sounds of busy city horns (cars) MAD magazineĮxclaimation of dismay, commonly used, and originaly created by the Peanuts gang by Charles Schulz. For instance, 'we got a lot of whumpfing today', or 'the snowpack whumpfed like rolling thunder just before it released and caught us.' Avalanche Encyclopedia Whumpf has been adopted as a technical avalanche term to describe the sound of a collapsing snowpack when you cross the snow.
When the fracture of a weak snow layer causes an upper layer to collapse, making a whumpfing sound.
