lumpkin

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English

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Etymology

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After Tony Lumpkin, an ignorant young man in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1771; first performed 1773).

Noun

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lumpkin (plural lumpkins)

  1. A clumsy, heavy, stupid, silly or blundering person.
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