lumpen

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʌmpən/

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Shortened from German Lumpenproletariat, from Lump (“a contemptible person”) + Proletariat.

lumpen

1. Of or relating to social outcasts.
   • 2014, Roberto Bolaño (tr. Natasha Wimmer), A Little Lumpen Novelita (2014 English of 2002 book):
     • A little lumpen novelita.
2. Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
3. Plebeian.

• lumpenism

lumpen (plural lumpens)

1. A member of the lumpenproletariat.

From lump +‎ -en (adjectival suffix).

lumpen (not comparable)

1. Lump-like.
   • 1968, Stanley Kubrick, Playboy magazine interview, September 1968, page 94:

     New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.

   • 2000, Joanne Morra, Mark Robson, Marquard Smith, The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, →ISBN, page 72:

     This something, which is neither body nor machine but interior and alien to them both, pertains to the 'meat' in Gibson's world insofar as the 'meat' - that useless corporeal remainder discarded by the machine - retains an excess that cannot be reduced to the lumpen mass of fleshy existence.

   • 2001, Adrian Beard, Texts and Contexts: Introducing Literature and Language Study, →ISBN:

     Using the last two as an example, there is a constant sense of contrast in the poem, in this case between the streamlined ship which will surge through the water and the mere lumpen shape of the clumsy iceberg.

   • 2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 17:

     Billy and Dandy had draped a tarp over the body but the shape itself looked lumpen and grotesque.

   • 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian‎:

     a slaloming winger putting lumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead the press and force mistakes.

From lump +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

lumpen (third-person singular simple present lumpens, present participle lumpening, simple past and past participle lumpened)

1. (rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become like lumps; make or become lumpy
   • 1959, Harold Uriel Ribalow, The chosen, page 298:

     They had chicken soup with the matzo meal balls a little lumpened by hurry, challah, roast chicken, kasha, honey-cake.

• plenum

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumpen/

lumpen

1. past participle of limpan

Borrowed from German Lumpen.

lumpen m (plural lumpeni)

1. lumpenproletarian

• lumpen in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

lumpen m (plural lúmpenes)

1. underclass, hoi polloi

• “lumpen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

From German Lumpen (“cloth, rag”).

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lumpen (comparative lumpnare, superlative lumpnast)

1. low, mean (mean in an uncalled-for, often petty way)

   Att utelämna Nisse som medförfattare till boken är riktigt lumpet av honom

   To leave out Nisse as co-author of the book is really low of him

2. paltry, lousy (insignificant)

   En lumpen femtiolapp var allt jag fick som tack

   A paltry 50 kronor bill was all I got as thanks

lumpen c

1. (informal) military service

   Synonym: militärtjänstgöring

   göra lumpen ― to do military service

   ligga i lumpen ― to do military service

• lumpare (“conscript doing military service”)

• värnplikt

• lumpen in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lumpen in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lumpen in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)