LEAVE it to Scots to come up with a marvellously descriptive word for a sudden downpour of rain and accompanying roll of thunder.
“We got caught in a thunderplump and we’re absolutely drookit”
A thunderplump tends to be preceded by ‘thunder drops’, the fat, scattered raindrops that herald impending meteorological havoc.
Another example of usage can be taken from the journal of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote: “We went to Preston, and took refuge from a thunder-plump in the old tower.”