lump.
Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
Meaning & usage
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.
A fat person.
A beating or verbal abuse.
He's taken his lumps over the years.
A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
The workhouse.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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.
To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
To hit or strike (a person).
To form a lump or lumps.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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