lumper
See also: Lumper
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
lump + -er
Noun
lumper (plural lumpers)
- An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
- (biology, linguistics) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
- Antonym: splitter
- (dialect) A militiaman.
Noun
lumper (plural lumpers)
- (dialect) A lamprey.
Verb
lumper (third-person singular simple present lumpers, present participle lumpering, simple past and past participle lumpered)
- to lumber; to plod
- 1866 (date written), Thomas Hardy, “The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published 1898, OCLC 5959488, page 190:
- Over piggeries, and mixens, and apples, and hay, / They lumpered straight into the night; / And finding bylong where a halter-path lay, / At dawn reached Tim's house […]
- 1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, & One Hundred and Thirty Scenes, part first, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited: New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, OCLC 4852011, Act II, scene v, page 81:
- But, my dear woman, why ever have ye come lumpering up to Rainbarrows at this time o' night?
- 1929, Thomas Hardy, Old Mrs. Chundle, New York: Crosby Gaige, OCLC 1061906613, page 11:
- Lord, what's the good o' my lumpering all the way to church and back again, when I'm as deaf as a plock?
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Anagrams
- Plumer, Rumple, replum, rumple