tump

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

Noun

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tump (plural tumps)

  1. (British, rare) A mound or hillock.
    • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
      The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.
    • 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone:
      [] 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.
Derived terms
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Verb

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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.
    to tump teasel

Etymology 2

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Possibly from tumpoke.

Verb

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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")
    Don't tump that bucket over!
  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.
    • 1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance:
      To reach our sleeping quarters under the roof we were obliged to climb seven flights of stairs and after tumping a blanket roll and a ruck-sack up these, both our breath and enthusiasm had suffered abatement.

Etymology 3

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Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (head).

Noun

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tump (plural tumps)

  1. (uncommon) A tumpline.

Irish

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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tump m (genitive singular tumpa, nominative plural tumpanna)

  1. butt, thump

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tump thump dtump
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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