lump

Senso (English)

1. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
2. A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
3. A group, set, or unit.
4. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
5. A dull or lazy person.
6. A fat person.
7. (informal) A beating or verbal abuse.
8. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
9. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
10. (obsolete,slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
11. (obsolete,slang) The workhouse.

bump

clod

mass-together

lumpish person

bone spavin

mammock

cumularsharolith

appendix

into one

Frequenza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/lʌmp/

Inherited from inglese medio

Cognate with olandese

Cognate with tedesco

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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