different between sump vs mump

English

Alternative forms

• sumph (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sompe, either from Middle Dutch somp, sump or Middle Low German sump, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. See swamp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

sump (plural sumps)

1. A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
2. The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
3. A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
4. (automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
5. (nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
6. (construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.

Derived terms

• dry sump
• sump pump
• wet sump

Translations

Verb

sump (third-person singular simple present sumps, present participle sumping, simple past and past participle sumped)

1. (intransitive) Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.

   We discovered a new passage, but it sumped after 100 metres.

   This low passage sumps quickly after moderate rainfall.

Translations

Anagrams

• umps

Danish

Noun

sump

1. swamp

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German sump and German Sumpf

Noun

sump m (definite singular sumpen, indefinite plural sumper, definite plural sumpene)

1. a swamp (type of wetland)

Derived terms

• sumpskilpadde

References

• “sump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German sump and German Sumpf

Noun

sump m (definite singular sumpen, indefinite plural sumpar, definite plural sumpane)

1. a swamp (type of wetland)

References

• “sump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German sump and German Sumpf

Noun

sump c

1. (fishing, containers) a corf, a container for keeping live fish
2. (geography) a swamp

Declension

Hyponyms

• sumprunkare – a man working with shaking corfs
• sumpmark – marsh
• kaffesump – left over coffee grounds in the bottom of a cup or brewing vessel

References

• sump in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sump in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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)

1. (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 […]

2. 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 […]

3. (intransitive) To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
4. To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
5. 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.

6. 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.

7. (transitive, intransitive) To nibble.
8. (Of a police officer) to accept a small gift or bribe in exchange for services.

Derived terms

• mumper
• Mumping Day

Noun

mump (plural mumps)

1. (obsolete) A grimace.

Etymology 2

Noun

mump (plural mumps)

1. (Britain, dialect, Somerset) A cube of peat; a spade's depth of digging turf.

References

Anagrams

• PMMU