lump

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English lumpe, from a Germanic base akin to Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide, go, hang loosely”). Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Low German Lump (“rag”), German Lumpen (“rag”) and Lump (“ragamuffin”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /lʌmp/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌmp

Noun[edit]

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 swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
    Lumps in the breasts are an indicator of breast cancer.
  3. A group, set, or unit.
    The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
  4. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
    Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
  5. A fat person
  6. A dull or lazy person.
    Don't just sit there like a lump.
    • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 7:
      "Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."
  7. (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.
  8. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
  9. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
      You roast him [the fish] […] just like a lump.
  10. (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
    • 1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, chapter 12, in Cole of Spyglass Mountain‎[1], New York: Grosset & Dunlap:
      “A lump,” explained The Whimperer […] “is wot a kin’ lady slips youse w’en youse batter de back door. If she invites youse in and lets youse t’row yer feet unner de table, it’s a set-down. If she slips youse a lunch in a poiper bag, it’s a lump. See? […] ”

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Verb[edit]

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)‎[2]:
      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.
    • 1876, Belgravia, volume 30, page 131:
      Well, a male body was brought to a certain surgeon by a man he had often employed, and the pair lumped it down on the dissecting table, and then the vendor received his money and went.
    • 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) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
    • 2019 January 9, Drachinifel, The Channel Dash / Operation Cerberus - How to win through refuge in audacity‎[3], archived from the original on 24 July 2022, 15:17 from the start:
      The Luftwaffe, at this point, was still refusing to play ball completely, however. But someone decided to lump Adolf Galland with command of the air operation, and he decided to work with Luftflotte 3, mobilizing their training units to make up the numbers, since large numbers of that particular formation's fighters had been diverted to the campaign in Russia, which was why the fighter numbers were so much lower than they had been the previous year.
  4. (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.
  5. (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.
    • 2004, Creative Gifts: Quick & Easy Projects, page 44:
      Thin the paint with mineral spirits for a medium consistency so that it will not drip or lump.

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Czech[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Derived from German Lump.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

lump m anim

  1. scoundrel, rascal
    Synonym: darebák

Declension[edit]

Declension of lump (hard masculine animate)
singular plural
nominative lump lumpové
genitive lumpa lumpů
dative lumpovi, lumpu lumpům
accusative lumpa lumpy
vocative lumpe lumpové
locative lumpovi, lumpu lumpech
instrumental lumpem lumpy

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Further reading[edit]

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

French[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From English lumpfish.

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Noun[edit]

lump m (plural lumps)

  1. lumpfish
    œufs de lump ― lumpfish eggs

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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From German Lump.[1][2]

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Adjective[edit]

lump (comparative lumpabb, superlative leglumpabb)

  1. rakish, dissolute, debauched (regularly engaging in late night drunken social gatherings)
    Synonyms: korhely, mulatós, kicsapongó, italos, részeges

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lump lumpok
accusative lumpot lumpokat
dative lumpnak lumpoknak
instrumental lumppal lumpokkal
causal-final lumpért lumpokért
translative lumppá lumpokká
terminative lumpig lumpokig
essive-formal lumpként lumpokként
essive-modal — —
inessive lumpban lumpokban
superessive lumpon lumpokon
adessive lumpnál lumpoknál
illative lumpba lumpokba
sublative lumpra lumpokra
allative lumphoz lumpokhoz
elative lumpból lumpokból
delative lumpról lumpokról
ablative lumptól lumpoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		lumpé lumpoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		lumpéi lumpokéi

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Noun[edit]

lump (plural lumpok)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory, chiefly of a man) rascal, carouser, roisterer, raver, drunkard (a person who regularly attends late night drunken social gatherings)

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lump lumpok
accusative lumpot lumpokat
dative lumpnak lumpoknak
instrumental lumppal lumpokkal
causal-final lumpért lumpokért
translative lumppá lumpokká
terminative lumpig lumpokig
essive-formal lumpként lumpokként
essive-modal — —
inessive lumpban lumpokban
superessive lumpon lumpokon
adessive lumpnál lumpoknál
illative lumpba lumpokba
sublative lumpra lumpokra
allative lumphoz lumpokhoz
elative lumpból lumpokból
delative lumpról lumpokról
ablative lumptól lumpoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		lumpé lumpoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		lumpéi lumpokéi
Possessive forms of lump
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. lumpom lumpjaim
2nd person sing. lumpod lumpjaid
3rd person sing. lumpja lumpjai
1st person plural lumpunk lumpjaink
2nd person plural lumpotok lumpjaitok
3rd person plural lumpjuk lumpjaik

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
  2. ^ lump in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

  • lump in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From German Lump.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

lump m pers

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

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

lump m inan

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

Further reading[edit]

  • lump in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • lump in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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