lump
Signification (English)
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- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
- A group, set, or unit.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- A dull or lazy person.
- A fat person.
- (informal) A beating or verbal abuse.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- (obsolete,slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
- (obsolete,slang) The workhouse.
Concepts
boule hystérique
lout
groupage
Synonyms
mass-together
lumpish person
bone spavin
mammock
cumularsharolith
appendix
into one
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/lʌmp/
Étymologie (English)
In summary
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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