lump

See also: Lump

English

Etymology

From Middle English lumpe. Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Lumpen (“rag”) and Lump (“ragamuffin”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʌmp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Noun

lump (plural lumps)

1. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.

   Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.

   a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese

2. A group, set, or unit.

   The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.

3. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.

   Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?

4. A dull or lazy person.

   Don't just sit there like a lump.

5. (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.

   He's taken his lumps over the years.

   • 1994, Robert J. McMahon, The cold war on the periphery: the United States, India, and Pakistan, page 323:

     Komer admitted that the United States would probably suffer "short term lumps" as a result of Johnson's brusque decision.

6. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
7. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     You roast him [the fish] […] just like a lump.

Hyponyms

• nubble

Derived terms

Derived terms

• lumpectomy
• lumpily
• lumpiness
• lump in one’s throat
• lumpish

• lumpishly
• lumpishness
• lump sum
• lumpy
• take one’s lumps

Translations

something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group

• Arabic: كُتْلَة‎‎ (ar) f (kutla)
• Armenian: կույտ (hy) (kuyt), գունդ (hy) (gund)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塊 (zh), 块 (zh) (kuài), 土粒 (tǔlì)

• Czech: škraloup m
• Dutch: brok (nl), klont (nl) m, f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: paakku (fi), möykky (fi), kyhmy (fi), kuhmu (fi), patti (fi), klimppi (fi), klöntti (fi)
• French: masse (fr), tas (fr), protubérance (fr), renflement (fr) m, bosse (fr) f, motte (fr) f
• Galician: vulto m, grolo (gl) m, grumo m
• Georgian: გუნდა (gunda)
• German: Kloß (de) m
• Greek: βόλος (el) m (vólos)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: csomó (hu), rög (hu), daganat (hu)
• Irish: daba m
• Italian: gonfiore (it) m, gnocco (it) m

• Japanese: 塊 (ja) (かたまり, katamari), たんこぶ (tankobu)
• Khmer: ដុំ (km) (dom), ពក (km) (pɔɔk), បិណ្ឌ (km) (bən)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: glaeba f, massa f, mōlēs f
• Maori: punga, ponguru, tuapuku
• Occitan: protuberància f, giba (oc) f, lópia f
• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: قلمبه‎‎ (fa) (qolombe)
• Portuguese: pelota (pt) f, saliência (pt) f
• Russian: вы́ступ (ru) m (výstup), ком (ru) m (kom), глы́ба (ru) f (glýba), комо́к (ru) m (komók) (smaller), буго́р (ru) m (bugór)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceap m, sgonn m
• Spanish: cúmulo (es) m, prominencia f, cordillera (es) f (de montañas), mazacote (es) m, mota (es) f, recrescencia f, grumo (es) m
• Swedish: klump (sv)
• Thai: ก้อน (th) (gɔ̂ɔn)
• Tibetan: རྡོག་རྡོག (rdog rdog)
• Turkish: yumru (tr), topak (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

group, set, or unit

• Finnish: kertasuoritus (fi) (of money), kasa (fi), pala (fi)
• French: lot (fr) m, paquet (fr) m, forfait (fr) m

• Spanish: cúmulo (es) m, agrupación (es) f, acumulación (es) m, amontonamiento (es) m

A small, shaped mass of sugar

• Dutch: klontje (nl)
• French: morceau (fr) m
• Galician: torrón m

• Italian: cucchiaino (it) m, zolla (it) f, zolletta (it) f, forfait (it) m
• Spanish: terrón (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} klonter (nl) m

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} trozo (es) m, ^{(please verify)} grumo (es) m, ^{(please verify)} bulto (es) m

Further reading

• lump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• lump in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Verb

lump (third-person singular simple present lumps, present participle lumping, simple past and past participle lumped)

1. To treat as a single unit; to group together.

   People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.

   • 2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London)‎^[1]:

     Pellegrini’s decision to operate with both Edin Dzeko and Agüero in attack certainly looks misjudged bearing in mind that the first way to stop Barcelona is usually to try to crowd midfield and restrict space. Yet it would be wrong to lump all the blame on the manager’s tactics.

Translations

to treat as single unit

• Dutch: klonteren (nl), bij elkaar doen

• Finnish: niputtaa (fi)

See also

• take one’s lumps
• lump it
• like it or lump it

Anagrams

• Plum, plum

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Czech

Etymology

From German Lump.

Noun

lump m

1. scoundrel, rascal

Synonyms

• See also darebák

Related terms

• ničemný

Further reading

• lump in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• lump in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Polish

Etymology

From German Lump.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lump/

Noun

lump m pers

1. (colloquial, derogatory) ne'er-do-well
2. (Poznań dialectal) clothing
3. (colloquial) a shortened form of lumpeks