lump
English
/lʌmp/
noun
Definitions
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- A group, set, or unit.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- A dull or lazy person.
- (informal) A beating or verbal abuse.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- (obsolete) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English lumpe.
Origin
Middle English
lumpe
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- fish English
- glue English
- gluelump English
- head English
- lumpability English
- lumpectomized English
- lumpectomy English
- lumpfish English
- lumpily English
- lumpiness English
- lumpish English
- lumpishly English
- lumpishness English
- lumpless English
- lumplessness English
- lumplike English
- lumpsome English
- lumpsucker English
- lumpy English
- lunkhead English
- sucker English
- Lumpen German
- zerlumpt German
- lomp Dutch, Flemish
- lomperd Dutch, Flemish
- lompvis Dutch, Flemish
- lump French
- люмпен Russian
- lumpe Middle English