different between tump vs tums

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

Compare Welsh twmp, twm.

Noun

tump (plural tumps)

1. (Britain, rare) A mound or hillock.
   • R. D. Blackmore

     […] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.

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Verb

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

1. (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.

Etymology 2

Possibly from tumpoke.

Verb

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

1. (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")

2. (intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
3. (US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.

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Etymology 3

From Penobscot [Term?]; see tumpline for more.

Noun

tump (plural tumps)

1. (uncommon) A tumpline.

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

tump m (genitive singular tumpa, nominative plural tumpanna)

1. butt, thump

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "tump" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

English

Noun

tums

1. plural of tum

Anagrams

• MTUs, UMTS, must, smut, stum

Swedish

Noun

tums

1. indefinite genitive plural of tum
2. indefinite genitive singular of tum

Anagrams

• must, stum