lumpen

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or relating to social outcasts.

   • A little lumpen novelita. [Story of orphaned teenagers turning to crime.]
2. 2

   Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.

3. 3

   Plebeian.

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   1. 4

      A member of the lumpenproletariat.

   2. 5

      Lump-like.

      • Using the last two as an example, there is a constant sense of contrast in the poem, in this case between the streamlined ship which will surge through the water and the mere lumpen shape of the clumsy iceberg.
   3. 6

      To make or become like lumps

      To make or become like lumps; make or become lumpy

      • They had chicken soup with the matzo meal balls a little lumpened by hurry, challah, roast chicken, kasha, honey-cake.

The neighborhood

• neighborlumpenism