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lumpkin

lumpkin noun: a clumsy, heavy, stupid, silly or blundering person.

Noun

lumpkin (plural lumpkins)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Lumpkin

Lumpkin (countable and uncountable, plural Lumpkins)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Butte County, California, United States.
  3. A small city, the county seat of Stewart County, Georgia, United States.

Forms of lumpkin

Noun
plurallumpkins
Proper noun
pluralLumpkins

Origin of lumpkin

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

Words formed from lumpkin

Phrases with lumpkin

Questions about lumpkin

What does lumpkin mean?
Lumpkin means a clumsy, heavy, stupid, silly or blundering person.
What part of speech is lumpkin?
Lumpkin can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of lumpkin?
The plural of lumpkin is lumpkins.

Words near lumpkin in the dictionary

  1. lumpings
  2. lumpish
  3. lumpishly
  4. lumpishness
  5. lumpiverse
  6. lumpkin
  7. Lumpkin County
  8. lumpkins
  9. lumpless
  10. lumplessness
  11. lumplike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lumpkin (page history and authors); Lumpkin (page history and authors). 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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