Lumping

lump¹ (l

mp)

1. An irregularly shaped mass or piece.

2. A small cube of sugar.

3. Pathology A swelling or small palpable mass.

4. A collection or totality; an aggregate.

5. A person regarded as ungainly or dull-witted.

6. lumps Informal

a. Severe punishment or treatment, as a beating or an unsparing criticism: take one's lumps.

b. One's just deserts; comeuppance: get one's lumps.

adj.

1. Formed into lumps: lump sugar.

2. Not broken or divided into parts: a lump payment.

v. lumped, lump·ing, lumps

v.tr.

1. To put together in a single group without discrimination.

2. To move with heavy clumsiness.

3. To make into lumps.

v.intr.

1. To become lumpy.

2. To move heavily.

Idiom:

lump in (one's) throat

A feeling of constriction in the throat caused by emotion.

[Middle English lumpe, of Low German origin; akin to obsolete Dutch lompe.]

lump² (l

mp)

tr.v. lumped, lump·ing, lumps Informal

To tolerate (what must be endured): like it or lump it.

[Perhaps from dialectal lump, to look sullen.]

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chunk
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clot
dollop
get one's lumps
glob
globus hystericus
gob
hunk
In the lump
iridoncus
lump
lump sugar
lump sum
lumpfish
lymphogranuloma
nodule
nubble

I seized my hat and, trying not to look at Apollon, who had been all day expecting his month's wages, but in his foolishness was unwilling to be the first to speak about it, I slipped between him and the door and, lumping into a high-class sledge, on which I spent my last half rouble, I drove up in grand style to the Hotel de Paris.

Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

A little later, in another department of the Wilmax Cannery, lumping as a fruit-distributor among the women, he essayed to carry two boxes of fruit at a time, and was promptly reproached by the other fruit-lumpers.

The Strength of the Strong by London, Jack View in context

"I won't," said Tom, flushing up to his hair, and lumping them all in his mind with his sworn enemy.

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context

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