lump /lump/

1. A shapeless mass
2. A bulge or protuberance
3. A swelling
4. A feeling as if of a swelling or tightening in the throat
5. A considerable quantity
6. The total as a whole
7. The gross
8. An inert, dull, good-natured or fair-sized person
9. A lumpfish

1. To throw into a confused mass
2. To consider everything together
3. To include under one heading, esp regardless
4. To endure willy-nilly
5. To put up with regardless
6. To be lumpish about
7. To dislike

1. To be lumpish
2. To gather or collect in a lump
3. To walk or move heavily

lumpecˈtomy noun

The surgical removal of a lump, caused by cancer, in the breast, esp as opposed to removal of the entire breast

lumpˈer noun

1. Someone who works on the lump (see the lump below)
2. A docker
3. A militiaman (dialect)
4. Someone inclined to lumping in classification, opp to hair-splitter

lumpˈily adverb

lumpˈiness noun

lumpˈing adjective

1. In a lump
2. Heavy
3. Bulky

lumpˈish adjective

1. Like a lump
2. Heavy
3. Gross
4. Dull
5. Sullen

lumpˈishly adverb

lumpˈishness noun

lumpˈkin noun

A lout

lumpˈy adjective

1. Full of lumps
2. Like a lump

lumpˈfish or lumpˈsucker noun

A sea fish (genus Cyclopterus), clumsy and with excrescences on its skin, with pectoral fins transformed into a sucker

lump sugar noun

Loaf sugar broken into small pieces or cut in cubes

lump sum noun

A single sum of money in lieu of several

lumpy jaw noun

Actinomycosis affecting the jaw in cattle

in the lump

In gross

like it or lump it

Enjoy it or put up with it

take or get one's lumps (informal)

To be reprimanded or scolded

the lump

The system of using self-employed workmen for a particular job, esp in order to evade tax and national insurance payments

• hardmouthed
• hardness
• hardnesses
• hardnosed
• hard of hearing
• hardoke
• hardokes
• hard on
• hard-on
• hard ons
• hard-ons
• hard on the heels of
• hard pad
• hard palate
• hard palates
• hard-pan
• hard-pans
• hardparts
• hard-paste
• hard-pressed
• hard-pushed
• hard put to it
• hard radiation
• hard-riding
• hard right