made to appear new when they were old, or solid when they were flimsy.
3. (common).—A militia-man.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, xxxviii. He was going to bring the lumpers upon us.
4. in pl. (Irish).—Potatoes; murphies (q.v.)
1846. Punch, x. 170. 'Twill tache him to be cuffin' at me with his ridin' whip when he rode over my acre and ruined my lumpers for me.
5. (scientific).—One who lumps together several species: as opposed to a splitter (q.v.).
1888. Nature, xxxix. 156. The happy medium between lumpers and splitters.
Lump hotel. See Lump, sense 2.
Lumping, adj. (old: now colloquial).—Heavy;
bulky; awkward.
1678. Four for a Penny, in Harl. Misc. (ed. Park), iv. 148. Their chief customers that bring the lumping bargains.
d.1735. Arbuthnot (in Johnson).—Nick, thou shalt have a lumping pennyworth.
1755. Johnson, Dict., s.v. Lumping, large, heavy, great. A low word.
1796. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. . . . . He has got a lumping pennyworth; frequently said of a man who marries a fat woman.
1851. H. Mayhew, Lon. Lab. and Lon. Poor, i. 163. He gives what is called the lumping hap'orth, that is seven or eight pieces [of hot eel with the soup].
1887. Boys Own Paper Xmas No., p. 3. Slick's Welsh cow-boy (a lumping yokel of forty summers and as many winters).
Lumpish, adj. (old).—Melancholy;
dull; dispirited and heavy.
1592. Nashe, Pierce Penilesse [Grosart (1885), ii. 82]. Heavy, lumpish, and sleepie.
1621. Burton, Anatomy (ed. 1852), i. 169. We call him melancholy that is dull, sad, sour, lumpish, ill-disposed, solitary.
1664. Wilson, Projectors, i. 1. At home you're as sad and lumpish as a gibb'd cat.
Lump of Coke, subs. phr. (rhyming).—A
bloke (q.v.); a man.
Lump of lead, subs. phr. (rhyming).—The
head; the crumpet {q.v.).
Lumpshious, adv. (common).—Delicious:
cf. scrumptious.
1844. Buckstone, The Maid with the Milking-pail. Milly. What, paint me? Paint me on a board and hang me up against a wall! Oh, that will be lumpshius! And then I can sit and look at myself all day long.
Lumpy, adj. (common).—1. Drunk.
For synonyms see Drinks and
Screwed.
2. (common).—Pregnant.
English synonyms. To be awkward; bellied-up, big; big-bellied, on the bones; bow- (or bay-) windowed, cocked-up, double-ribbed, in an interesting condition, in for it, in pod, in the pudding-club, jumbled-up, knocked-up, loaded; on the bones; sewed-up, short-skirted, trussed-up, or wedged-up. To have one's apron up; a belly-ful, or a belly-ful of bones; one's cargo aboard; a nine months' dropsy (or a dropsy that will drop into the lap); one's fairing; fallen; got it; a hump in front (or on one's belly); an inside worry; a kick in the back; a lap-clap; more in one's belly than ever got there through one's mouth; young; a white swelling.
French synonyms. Avoir le ventre or le sac plein (= to be bellied-up); avoir un arlequin dans la soupente (of harlots: arlequin = a prostitute's brat;
