clumpy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈklʌmpi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective[edit]
clumpy (comparative clumpier, superlative clumpiest)
- Forming or tending to form clumps.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
- Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough […]
- Resembling a clump.
- Clompy; with heavy footfalls.
- 1920, Eleanor H. Porter, Mary Marie:
- Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear.