Lumping

lump ¹  (lmp)

n.

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.

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

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lump ²  (lmp)

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

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

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[Perhaps from dialectal lump, to look sullen.]