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lummox dial. and U.S.|ˈlʌməks|
Also lommocks, lommox, lummicks, lummux, etc.
[Of obscure formation. Goes with the dial. verb lummock to move heavily or clumsily.]
A large, heavy, or clumsy person; an ungainly or stupid lout.
a1825R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) II. 201 Look o' yin great lummox, lazing and lolloping about. 1854A. E. Baker Gloss. Northamptonshire Words I. 402 A great fat lommocks. 1854‘Dow, Jr.’ Patent Sermons IV. 149 (Th.), Man in his original state is little more than a big lummux of a baby. 1857J. G. Holland Bay Path 381 (Th.), I hope you'll leave somebody else to home besides this lazy lummox. 1893W. K. Post Harvard Stories 186 Well, don't you be such a lazy lummox. 1919H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iii. 92 Oswald is a big fair-haired lummox that sings tenor in the Presbyterian choir. 1924F. Hurst (title) Lummox. 1934[see gormless a.]. 1952J. Steinbeck East of Eden xvii. 172 Those great lummoxes would chew a little thing like you to the bone. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned vi. 54 There's that settee... This big lummox..can sleep on that. 1957J. Braine Room at Top iv. 45 The big lummox standing possessively beside her. 1971T. Kilroy Big Chapel vi. 123 And that other lummox backing him up good-oh!.. A fine pair of cross-fire merchants the two of them! 1973A. Garner Red Shift 55 You big lummox,..He's talking about the Irish. |