lump

See also: Lump

English

Etymology

From Middle English lumpe. Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Low German Lump (“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)
• Bulgarian: маса (bg) f (masa), куп (bg) m (kup)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: škraloup m
• Dutch: brok (nl), klont (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: bulo (eo)
• 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: Klumpen (de) m, Kloß (de) m
• Greek: βόλος (el) m (vólos)

  Ancient: βῶλος f (bôlos)

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: csomó (hu), rög (hu), daganat (hu)
• Icelandic: kökkur (is) m
• 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

small, shaped mass of sugar

• Bulgarian: бучка (bg) f (bučka)
• Dutch: klontje (nl)
• Finnish: pala (fi)
• French: morceau (fr) m
• Galician: torrón m

• German: Stück (de) n (Würfelzucker (de) m)
• Icelandic: sykurmoli m
• Italian: cucchiaino (it) m, zolla (it) f, zolletta (it) f, forfait (it) m
• Portuguese: torrão (pt) 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

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).

   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.

2. (transitive) To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
   • 1999, Alf Goldberg, World's End for Sir Oswald: Portraits of Working-class Life in Pre-war London, Book Guild, →ISBN:

     I never ceased to be amazed at his prowess at being able to lump two-hundredweight sacks of coal, which seemed as big as he was, up perhaps four flights of narrow stairs

3. (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
   • 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)

     If that's the only way you can fight, then you'd better be prepared to get lumped.

Derived terms

• lump together

Translations

to treat as single unit

• Bulgarian: струпвам (bg) (strupvam)
• Dutch: klonteren (nl), bij elkaar doen

• Finnish: niputtaa (fi)

See also

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

Further reading

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

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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French

Etymology

From English lumpfish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lœ̃p/

Noun

lump m (plural lumps)

1. lumpfish

   œufs de lump ― lumpfish eggs

References

• “lump” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Polish

Etymology

From German Lump.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lump/

Noun

lump m pers

1. (colloquial, derogatory) ne'er-do-well

Declension

declension of lump

	singular	plural
nominative	lump	lumpy
genitive	lumpa	lumpów
dative	lumpowi	lumpom
accusative	lumpa	lumpów
instrumental	lumpem	lumpami
locative	lumpie	lumpach
vocative	lumpie	lumpy

Noun

lump m inan

1. (Poznań) clothing
2. (colloquial) Clipping of lumpeks.

Further reading

• lump in Polish dictionaries at PWN