tump

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

Noun

tump (plural tumps)

  1. (British, rare) A mound or hillock.
    • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
      The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.
    • 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone:
      [] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.
Derived terms

Verb

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

  1. (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
    to tump teasel

Etymology 2

Possibly from tumpoke.

Verb

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

  1. (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
    Don't tump that bucket over!
  2. (intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
  3. (US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
    • 1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance:
      To reach our sleeping quarters under the roof we were obliged to climb seven flights of stairs and after tumping a blanket roll and a ruck-sack up these, both our breath and enthusiasm had suffered abatement.

Etymology 3

Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (head).

Noun

tump (plural tumps)

  1. (uncommon) A tumpline.

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

tump m (genitive singular tumpa, nominative plural tumpanna)

  1. butt, thump

Declension

Declension of tump (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative tump tumpanna
vocative a thump a thumpanna
genitive tumpa tumpanna
dative tump tumpanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tump na tumpanna
genitive an tumpa na dtumpanna
dative leis an tump
don tump
leis na tumpanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of tump
radical lenition eclipsis
tump thump dtump

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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