tump
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʌmp/
- Rhymes: -ʌmp
Etymology 1
Compare Welsh twmp, twm.
Noun
tump (plural tumps)
- (Britain, 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.
- R. D. Blackmore
- […] 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
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Verb
tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)
- (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)
- (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
- Don't tump that bucket over!
- (intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
- (US, dialectal) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
Irish
Etymology
Declension
Declension of tump
Third declension
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tump | thump | dtump |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- "tump" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
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