lumping

Bulky; heavy.

Adjective

  1. Bulky; heavy.
    • a lumping great thing
    • VVilt thou purchaſe it Nic.? thou ſhalt have a lumping Pennyvvorth; nay, rather than vve ſhould differ, I'll give thee ſomething to take it off my Hands. - 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “The...

Origin

Etymology tree English lump Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English lumping From lump + -ing.

Forms

more lumping most lumping

Derived

lumpingly lumpingness

Noun

  1. gerund of lump: the act or result of lumping things together.
    • The systems called descriptive have fewer such lumpings; the terminology which prevails in the United States today serves as an example. - 1972, Wendell H. Oswalt, Other Peoples, Other Customs: World Ethnography and Its...

Forms

lumpings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of lump