lumpyadj.
/ˈlʌmpi/, U.S. /ˈləmpi/ 1.
a. Full of lumps.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adjective] > full of lumps
globose?a1425
clotty?1523
cloddy1547
cloddered1558
lumpy1707
lumpish1735
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 286 This is one of the best Spades I have met with to dig hard lumpy Clays.
1809–16 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk (1884) 414 A lumpy soup full of knots of curds.
1845 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. I. 293 The blood remained perfectly fluid and slightly lumpy.
1885 Times 30 July 9/6 The soaked rice when subjected to steam-heat is liable to form a lumpy porridge instead of a mess in which the grains remain separate.
b. Applied to rough water when the surface is cut up by the wind into small waves. Also of broken weather.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > choppy
chapping1622
chopping1623
cockling1625
popping1661
short1663
coppling1667
lumpy1857
choppy1867
snappish1867
chopped1880
loppy1883
lopping1887
popply1889
sloppy1970
1857 C. Gribble in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1858) 5 3 Hard gales..with a heavy lumpy sea.
1867 Morning Star 19 Sept. 3 At this part of the river the water was extremely ‘lumpy’, the high wind meeting the ebb tide.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) ii. viii. iv. §3. 664 They are capable of living through a great deal of lumpy lake or river.
1894 Times 6 Mar. 7/2 The head wind and lumpy water in this reach making the work very hard.
1928 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 Mar. 8/1 ‘Had good weather?’ ‘Lumpy weather all the way.’
c. lumpy jaw n. actinomycosis affecting the jaw, common in cattle.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle
murrainc1450
gall1577
gargyse1577
sprenges1577
wisp1577
closh1587
milting1587
moltlong1587
hammer1600
mallet1600
scurvy1604
wither1648
speed1704
nostril dropping1708
bladdera1722
heartsick1725
throstling1726
striking1776
feather-cling1799
hollow-horn1805
weed1811
blood striking1815
the slows1822
toad-bit1825
coast-fever1840
horn-distemper1843
rat's tail1847
whethering1847
milk fever1860
milt-sickness1867
pearl tumour1872
actinomycosis1877
pearl disease1877
rat-tail1880
lumpy jaw1891
niatism1895
cripple1897
rumenitis1897
Rhodesian fever1903
reticulitis1905
barbone1907
contagious abortion1910
trichomoniasis1915
shipping fever1932
New Forest disease1954
bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987
BSE1987
mad cow disease1988
East Coast fever2009
1891–2 E. Salmon in U.S. Rep. Bureau Animal Industry (title) The Treatment of Lumpy Jaw.
1895 Times 4 Mar. 3/3 Should an animal be suffering from ‘lumpy jaw’ (actinomycosis),..the inspector condemns it.
2. Having an outline or shape characterized by lumps or roundish protuberances which impart a heavy and clumsy appearance.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective] > having (a) protuberance(s) > having lumps or bumps
bumped1597
hulchy1632
humpy1708
lumpy1708
bumpy1769
hunchy1881
humpty1889
1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin 36 Leaning on one Arm his lumpy Head.
1794 U. Price Ess. Picturesque 262 [That] dead flatness of outline..which his own close lumpy plantations of trees always exhibit.
1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 3 Apr. (1941) 217 I have not forgiven them for..building two lumpy things like mad-houses.
1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. viii. 222 Schistose rocks..form large lumpy hills, with long smooth slopes.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 107 Young ones [horses] generally have a roundish, lumpy shoulder.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 577 The disorder differs from other forms of obesity in its partial and lumpy distribution.
1926 A. Bennett Ld. Raingo i. xxxviii. 216 The fair but lumpy young woman silently left the room.
1928 E. O'Neill Strange Interlude i. 14 Pretty vicious face under caked powder and rouge..lumpy body.
1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Mar. 162/2 In the early nineties I was looking at Rubens's ‘Rape of the Sabines’ in the National Gallery, when a British workman beside me remarked, ‘Lumpy lot to lift, eh?’
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 168 The unfortunate fat boy..is known as..lumpy.
1973 Observer 5 Aug. 18/7 Lumpier and mousier, the girl grooms socialised affectionately with their ponies.
3. slang. Intoxicated, drunk.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1810 Splendid Follies III. 165 Doctor Lying..got cherry~merry, and came home as lumpy..as an ass.
1845 Punch 8 200 For ‘boosey’ we might substitute ‘lumpy’ to suit modern parlance.
1864 in Slang Dict.
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