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English
Etymology
From lump + -ing.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lumping (comparative more lumping, superlative most lumping)
- Bulky; heavy.
a lumping great thing
1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “The Discourse that Pass’d between Nic. Frog and Esquire South, which John Bull Overheard”, in Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. , London: John Morphew, , →OCLC, page 30:VVilt thou purchaſe it Nic.? thou ſhalt have a lumping Pennyvvorth; nay, rather than vve ſhould differ, I'll give thee ſomething to take it off my Hands.
Noun
lumping (plural lumpings)
- gerund of lump: the act or result of lumping things together.
1972, Wendell H. Oswalt, Other Peoples, Other Customs: World Ethnography and Its History:The systems called descriptive have fewer such lumpings; the terminology which prevails in the United States today serves as an example.
Verb
lumping
- present participle and gerund of lump
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