different between lump vs bagginess
lump
English
Etymology
From Middle English lumpe. Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Low German Lump (“rag”), German Lumpen (“rag”) and Lump (“ragamuffin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
lump (plural lumps)
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.
- a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese
- A group, set, or unit.
- The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
- A dull or lazy person.
- Don't just sit there like a lump.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- He's taken his lumps over the years.
- 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.
- 1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 12,[1]
- “A lump,” explained The Whimperer […] “is wot a kin’ lady slips youse w’en youse batter de back door. If she invites youse in and lets youse t’row yer feet unner de table, it’s a set-down. If she slips youse a lunch in a poiper bag, it’s a lump. See? […] ”
- 1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 12,[1]
Hyponyms
- nubble
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lump (third-person singular simple present lumps, present participle lumping, simple past and past participle lumped)
- (transitive) 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).
- (transitive) To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
- 1876, Belgravia (volume 30, page 131)
- Well, a male body was brought to a certain surgeon by a man he had often employed, and the pair lumped it down on the dissecting table, and then the vendor received his money and went.
- 1876, Belgravia (volume 30, page 131)
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
- 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)
- If that's the only way you can fight, then you'd better be prepared to get lumped.
- 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)
Derived terms
- lump together
Translations
See also
- take one’s lumps
- lump it
- like it or lump it
Further reading
- lump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lump in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Plum, plum
Czech
Etymology
From German Lump.
Noun
lump m
- scoundrel, rascal
Synonyms
- See also darebák
Related terms
- ni?emný
Further reading
- lump in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- lump in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
From English lumpfish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lœ?p/
Noun
lump m (plural lumps)
- lumpfish
References
- “lump” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Lump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lump]
- Hyphenation: lump
- Rhymes: -ump
Adjective
lump (comparative lumpabb, superlative leglumpabb)
- rakish, dissolute, debauched (regularly engaging in late night drunken social gatherings)
- Synonyms: korhely, mulatós, kicsapongó, italos, részeges
Declension
Derived terms
- lumpol
Noun
lump (plural lumpok)
- (colloquial, derogatory, chiefly of a man) rascal, carouser, roisterer, raver, drunkard (a person who regularly attends late night drunken social gatherings)
Declension
References
Further reading
- lump in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Polish
Etymology
From German Lump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lump/
Noun
lump m pers
- (colloquial, derogatory) ne'er-do-well
Declension
Noun
lump m inan
- (Pozna?) clothing
- (colloquial) Clipping of lumpeks.
Further reading
- lump in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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bagginess
English
Etymology
baggy +? -ness
Noun
bagginess (usually uncountable, plural bagginesses)
- The characteristic of being baggy.
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