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mump
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps borrowed through obsolete Dutch mompen (“to cheat, swindle, deceive”), according to Kroonen, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *mump- (“to stain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mmb?-neh?-, related to Ancient Greek ???????? (mémphomai, “I blame, accuse”).
Also akin to German mimpfeln (“to mumble”), Icelandic mumpa (“to take into the mouth”). See also English mum.
Verb
mump (third-person singular simple present mumps, present participle mumping, simple past and past participle mumped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To mumble, speak unclearly.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, "Epilogue Spoklen by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss Catley [intended for She Stoops to Conquer]":
- Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling,
- Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling […]
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, "Epilogue Spoklen by Mrs. Bulkley and Miss Catley [intended for She Stoops to Conquer]":
- To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
- 1630, John Taylor, "The Necessitie of Hanging":
- He mumps, and lowres, and hangs the lip […]
- 1630, John Taylor, "The Necessitie of Hanging":
- (intransitive) To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
- To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
- To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
- 1774, Edmund Burke, "Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774":
- Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here; and then went mumping with a sore leg in America, canting, and whining, and complaining of faction, which represented them as friends to a revenue from the colonies.
- 1774, Edmund Burke, "Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774":
- To be sullen or sulky.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:
- The Christian also spurns the pinched and mumping sick-room attitude, and the lives of saints are full of a kind of callousness to diseased conditions of body which probably no other human records show.
- 1948, James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor:
- It remained necessary to make a shift at bearing yourself like a man; not mumping, not moping.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:
- (transitive, intransitive) To nibble.
- (Of a police officer) to accept a small gift or bribe in exchange for services.
Derived terms
- mumper
- Mumping Day
Noun
mump (plural mumps)
- (obsolete) A grimace.
Etymology 2
Noun
mump (plural mumps)
- (Britain, dialect, Somerset) A cube of peat; a spade's depth of digging turf.
References
Anagrams
- PMMU
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bump
English
Etymology
From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision", also "to make a heavy, hollow sound, boom”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”). Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”), probably of imitative origin. More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)
- A light blow or jolting collision.
- The sound of such a collision.
- A protuberance on a level surface.
- A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
- (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymically) the faculty itself
- c.1845 Thomas MacNevin, cited in Charles Gavan Duffy (1896) Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45; final revision (London: T.F. Unwin) Vol.II p.100:
- Our task is to elevate the character of the people, raising up, in fact, their bump of self-esteem and suppressing the bumps of servility and fury.
- c.1845 Thomas MacNevin, cited in Charles Gavan Duffy (1896) Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45; final revision (London: T.F. Unwin) Vol.II p.100:
- (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
- The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
- (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
- (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
- The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
- (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
- In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
- (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)
- To knock against or run into with a jolt.
- To move up or down by a step; displace.
- (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
- (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
- 2005, Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)
- Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years' […]
- 2005, Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)
- (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
- 2010, Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual, p. 332:
- A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30.
- 2010, Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual, p. 332:
- (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
- (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
- as a bittern bumps within a reed
- (printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
- (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
- You know about the night the kid bumped Brody?
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
bump
- (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
Danish
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, compare English bump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bom?p/, [?b??m?b?]
- Homophone: bomb
Noun
bump n (singular definite bumpet, plural indefinite bump)
- thud
- jolt
- road hump
Inflection
Derived terms
- vejbump
- bumpe
Verb
bump (form)
- imperative of bumpe
Welsh
Numeral
bump
- Soft mutation of pump (“five”).
Mutation
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