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lumpish, a.|ˈlʌmpɪʃ|
Also 6 lompish.
[f. lump n.1 (in some uses with mixture of the sense of lump v.2) + -ish.]
1. Of material objects: Of cumbersome weight or bulk; not apt to be moved easily; heavy and unwieldy. ? Obs.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. ii. (Arb.) 125 It is better to haue a shafte..somewhat to lyght than ouer lumpysshe. 1683Tryon Way to Health 105 It [boiling] makes it [food] lumpish, close, heavy, dull, and gross on the Pallate. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Earth, The Earth is called claiey or stiff Earth, when it..is lumpish, dull, heavy and cold.
2. Heavy and clumsy in appearance, shape, or movement.
c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 226 Then should we have soon espied the lumpish and foul hands of our juggler. 1573L. Lloyd Pilgr. Princes 19 From a rude & lumpish Chaos, the worlde waxed beautifull. 1671Blagrave Astrol. Physic 127 A man of..swarthy complection, and of a lumpish countenance. 1777G. Forster Voy. round World II. 539 The amphibious and lumpish animals which dwelt on Southern Georgia. 1820Scott Monast. xxix, Swelling lumpish hills. 1863A. M. Bell Princ. Speech 179 A tongue which formerly lay lumpish and inert in the mouth. 1882Q. Rev. Oct. 375 Seated statues, square and lumpish, like those brought from Branchidæ to the British Museum. 1894Mrs. H. Ward Marcella III. 122 A governess, a schoolgirl, or a lumpish boy.
3. Stupidly dull, heavy, or lethargic in action, thought, or feeling; sluggishly inactive; slow-minded, unapprehensive.
1528Paynel Salerne's Regim. B iv b, A lumpishe spirite causeth a sluggishe body. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Heautont. v. i. Q vj, To be called a blockpate, a dulhead, an asse, a lumpish sot. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 141 The often and much vse of Lettuce..hindreth procreation,..and maketh the body lumpish. 1702Pope Jan. & May 420 The lumpish husband snoar'd away the night. 1777Burke Let. to Fox Wks. IX. 150 An heavy, lumpish acquiescence in Government. 1782Cowper To Lady Austen, on a Flood at Olney, I then should have no need of wit, For lumpish Hollander unfit! 1868Doran Saints & Sin. II. 309 He was as nervous about dreams as the most lumpish of dairymaids. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 12 Jan. 19/1 We do not believe this attitude of lumpish obstruction can be persisted in if the Democratic Senators do their duty.
†b. Insensible to. Obs.
1585Parsons Chr. Exerc. i. iv. 29 So dead we are, and lumpish to all goodnesse.
†4. Low-spirited, dejected, melancholy. Obs.
1534More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1196/1 He marketh well..mennes complexions..by whiche they be light hearted or lumpish. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. xii. 18 He looking lompish and full sullein sad. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iii. ii. 62 She is lumpish, heauy, mellancholly. 1602Rowlands Tis Merrie when Gossips meete 9 The lumpish leaden melancholy thought. 1621S. Ward Life of Faith vii. 46 His faith cannot bee but lumpish and melancholly. 1647Trapp Comm. Phil. i. 14 Neither ever since that time have I felt any lumpish heavinesse. 1712Steele Spect. No. 518 ⁋9 A contracted brow, a lumpish down-cast look. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 35 My Heart was so lumpish!
5. Of sound: Dull and heavy.
1742Fielding J. Andrews iii. ix, He fell prostrated on the floor with a lumpish noise. a1764Lloyd Ode to Genius Poet. Wks. 1774 II. 174 Lifeless and lumpish as the bagpipes drowzy drone. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) xvi. 90 The dead, lumpish, tubby tones of the fourth and fifth strings of the guittar.
†6. In lumps, lumpy. Obs. (exc. as nonce-use).
1735Dyche & Pardon Dict., Lumpish, in Clods or congealed Parcels. 1776Bedlam, a Poem 8 When gloomy the black Bile prevails, And lumpish Phlegm the thicken'd Mass congeals. 1850Maxwell Let. in Life v. (1882) 145 Metallic bismuth..either powder or lumpish.
†b. Of liquor: Full of lumps, ropy. Obs.
1703Art & Myst. Vintners 35 Sack that is lumpish or lowring.
7. Comb.
1632Dekker Pref. Verse in Brome's North. Lasse, Thy Daughter..Is chaste and witty to the time; Not lumpish-cold, as is her Clime. a1645Heywood Fort. by Land & Sea i. i. Wks. 1874 VI. 366 Ther's no mirth in me, nor was I wont to be so lumpish sad. 1863Mrs. Gaskell Dark Night's Work xii. 223 They've quite a different style of hand [in horsemanship], and sit all lumpish-like. |