lump
1 (lŭmp)
[Middle English lumpe, of Low German originobsolete Dutch lompe.]
noun
- An irregularly shaped mass or piece.
- A small cube of sugar.
- Pathology A swelling or small palpable mass.
- A collection or totality; an aggregate.
- A person regarded as ungainly or dull-witted.
- Informal
- Severe punishment or treatment, as a beating or an unsparing criticism: take one's lumps.
- One's just deserts; comeuppance: get one's lumps.
adjective
- Formed into lumps: lump sugar.
- Not broken or divided into parts: a lump payment.
verb: lumped, lump·ing, lumps.
transitive verb
- To put together in a single group without discrimination.
- To move with heavy clumsiness.
- To make into lumps.
intransitive verb
- To become lumpy.
- To move heavily.
idioms
- lump in (one's) throat
- A feeling of constriction in the throat caused by emotion.
lump
2 (lŭmp)
[Perhaps from dialectal lump, to look sullen.]
transitive verb: lumped, lump·ing, lumps.
Informal- To tolerate (what must be endured): like it or lump it.
