lump

Mane (English)

Noun

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.

Verb

1. 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).
2. To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
3. To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
4. (slang) To hit or strike (a person).
5. To form a lump or lumps.

Synonyms

bump

clod

mass

piece

swelling

chunk

protuberance

ball

knot

🪢

bit

clump

knob

clot

slice

heap

bulge

wen

gob

hump

tumor

cluster

gnarl

part

loaf

total

tuber

fragment

gobbet

pimple

snowball

flake

bunch

block

blob

excrescence

portion

nub

hunk

welt

outgrowth

aggregate

boil

glob

node

pile

nipple

collection

nugget

oaf

bar

projection

protrusion

puffiness

gawk

rock

🪨

button

conglomeration

goon

boulder

crowd

spot

stack

crumb

stone

🪨

stumblebum

blister

hunch

tumour

eminence

lout

lubber

weal

lummox

mass-together

tumefaction

mound

multitude

put up with

quantity

rugged

scrap

shred

sledgehammer

slob

slump

sod

sore

spavin

stalemate

suffer

sum

sum up

sustain

swarm

swell

thickening

titbit

tolerate

totality

tubercle

tuberosity

unit

volume

wad

wart

whelp

wholesale

whopper

wound

yuck

reckon up

nubble

fruit

lumpish person

bone spavin

mammock

cumularsharolith

number

🔢

whole

accumulation

add

agglutinate

appendix

assemblage

assemble

band

batch

bear

🐻

body

bolus

boule

bowl

bruise

bud

bulk

bundle

bundle up

cake

🍰

case study

cast up

centralize

chuck

class

cob

collocate

combine

concentrate

concentration

concretion

congeries

count up

cripple

ding

doorknob

drift

dumpling

🥟

edema

egg

🥚

endure

entire

favus

flock

focus

foot

🦶

fraction

furuncle

galoot

globe

glop

goiter

grain

granule

gross

group

grouping

growth

hill

ingot

injury

into one

lot

lump together

majority

mallet

morsel

neoplasm

net

nodule

organization

pack

pellet

plurality

porridge

pustule

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/lʌmp/

Etîmolojî (English)

Inherited from Middle English: lumpe

Cognate with holendî: lomp

Cognate with almanî: Lumpen

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”).