clump
nounEtymology
From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”). Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Doublet of klomp. Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.
Definitions
A cluster or lump
A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
- There are suitable clumps of gorse a little way back, sir. I anticipate that you would be quite safe there, or I would not suggest it, sir.
- clump of trees
A dull thud.
- She [Miss Climpson] asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush. She is the angel that rushes in where fools get a clump on the head.
- Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.
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The compressed clay of coal strata.
- clump-burned bricks
A small group of trees or plants.
A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
To form clusters or lumps.
To gather in dense groups.
To walk with heavy footfalls.
To strike
To strike; to beat.
- There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!
The neighborhood
Derived
clumpable, clump block, clumper, clumpful, clumpish, clumplike, clumpy, declump, interclump, macroclump, microclump, Pine Clump, red clump, subclump, unclump, clump up
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for clump. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA