lump
/lʌmp/
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Northern England/lʊmp/
lump noun: something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
Noun
lump (plural lumps)
- 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
- 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.
- A group, set, or unit.
- The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
- A dull or lazy person.
- Don't just sit there like a lump.
- "Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 7
- A fat person.
- A beating or verbal abuse.
- He's taken his lumps over the years.
- Komer admitted that the United States would probably suffer "short term lumps" as a result of Johnson's brusque decision.1994, Robert J. McMahon, The cold war on the periphery: the United States, India, and Pakistan, page 323
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- You roast him [the fish] […] just like a lump.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
- “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? […]”1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, chapter 12, in Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap
- The workhouse.
Verb
lump (third-person singular simple present lumps, present participle lumping, simple past and past participle lumped)
- 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.
- Most gays don't want to know about us, so lumping us in their support efforts is counter-productive at best.1996 September, V. Maulsby, “The Importance of Outside Commnication to the Transgendered Inmate”, in Gay Community News, page 31
- To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
- 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.1876, Belgravia, volume 30, page 131
- 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 stairs1999, Alf Goldberg, World's End for Sir Oswald: Portraits of Working-class Life in Pre-war London, Book Guild, →ISBN
- To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
- 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...2019 January 9, Drachinifel, 15:17 from the start, in The Channel Dash / Operation Cerberus - How to win through refuge in audacity, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2022
- To hit or strike (a person).
- If that's the only way you can fight, then you'd better be prepared to get lumped.1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself, page 63
- To form a lump or lumps.
- Thin the paint with mineral spirits for a medium consistency so that it will not drip or lump.2004, Creative Gifts: Quick & Easy Projects, page 44
lump meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
lump in Hindi
- something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group
- गांठ gā̃ṭh
lump in Tamil
- கட்டி, குவியல், திரள், மிகு அளவு, மொத்தை
lump in Urdu
- انبار, ڈلا, ڈلی, گمڑا, پنڈا, اکٹھا کرنا
lump in Bengali
- lump, mass, clump
- পিণ্ড pinḍo
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- lump in Telugu
- కండ kaṇḍa, ముద్ద mudda, ఉండ uṇḍa, గడ్డ gaḍḍa
- lump in Malayalam
- കട്ട, മുഴ, വീക്കം
- lump in Kannada
- ತೆರಳೆ, ತೆರಣಿ, ಹೆಂಟೆ, ಕರಣಿ
- lump in Punjabi
- ਭੇਲਾ bhelā, ਲੌਂਦਾ laundā, ਚੱਕਾ cakkā, ਰੋੜੀ roṛī
- lump in Gujarati
- ગાંઠ gā̃ṭh
- lump in Sanskrit
- कन्द kanda
- lump in Nepali
- लम्प गर्न
- lump in Tagalog
- punso
- lump in Arabic
- كُتْلَة kutla
- lump in Malay
- ketul, ketulan
- lump in Persian
- قلمبه qolombe
- lump in Thai
- ก้อน gɔ̂ɔn
- lump in Vietnamese
- đống
Examples of lump in a sentence
- Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr.2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times...
- Yet it would be wrong to lump all the blame on the manager’s tactics.2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London):
Forms of lump
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lumps |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lumps |
| present participle | lumping |
| past participle | lumped |
| past | lumped |
Origin of lump
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”).
Words formed from lump
- bring a lump to someone's throat
- expository lump
- gluelump
- in the lump
- lady lumps
- ladylumps
- lumpability
- lumpatious
- lumpectomy
- lumpen
- lumpfish
- lump hammer
- lumpily
- lumpiness
- lump in one's throat
- lumpish
- lumpishly
- lumpishness
- lumpless
- lumplike
- lumps of delight
- lumpsome
- lumpsucker
- lump-sugar
- lump sum
- lump to one's throat
- lump work
- lumpy
- lunkhead
- sugar lump
- take one's lumps
- Welsh lump
- lumper
- lump the lighter
- lump together
Phrases with lump
Words that rhyme with lump
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Questions about lump
- What does lump mean?
- Lump means something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- What is lump in Hindi?
- Lump in Hindi is गांठ (gā̃ṭh). See Lump meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use lump in a sentence?
- Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr.
- What part of speech is lump?
- Lump can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce lump?
- Lump is pronounced /lʌmp/.
- What is the plural of lump?
- The plural of lump is lumps.
Words near lump in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lump (page history and authors); lump (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lump (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); পিণ্ড (Bengali) (page history and authors); ఉండ (Telugu) (page history and authors); lump (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lump (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਚੱਕਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ગાંઠ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); कन्द (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); lump (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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