In an article discussing those two, James Kilpatrick, the author, makes the following claim:
Semantically speaking, there is not a dime's worth of difference in the two verbs. They both mean "to bring down the foot on an object or a surface forcibly, to tread heavily or violently upon." The subtle difference, I submit, lies in the image we are trying to convey. Ladies stamp, horses stomp.
Is that true? Is stamping gentler (or more genteel, perhaps) than stomping?
I remember an editor changing all three instances of a female character in my story stamping her foot in anger to stomping her foot in anger.
Any thoughts?
Best Answer
They are just synonyms according to the following sources:
(M-W)
Stomp:
(grammarguide.copydesk.org)
Usage examples from OLD:
The usage of "stomp" is often, but not necessarily, related to anger:
To Stomp:
(M-W)