tump
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /tʌmp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌmp
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
tump (plural tumps)
- (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 edit
Verb edit
tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)
- (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
- to tump teasel
Etymology 2 edit
Possibly from tumpoke.
Verb edit
tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)
- (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
- Don't tump that bucket over!
- (intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
- (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 edit
Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).
Noun edit
tump (plural tumps)
Irish edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
tump m (genitive singular tumpa, nominative plural tumpanna)
Declension edit
Declension of tump
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tump | thump | dtump |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tump”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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