lump – English noun declension

English noun forms of lump

Noun: lump
Singularlump
Plurallumps

Sample Sentences

  • Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.
  • a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese
  • Lumps in the breasts are an indicator of breast cancer.
  • The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
  • Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
  • Don't just sit there like a lump.
  • "Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold." [1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 7:]
  • He's taken his lumps over the years.
  • Komer admitted that the United States would probably suffer "short term lumps" as a result of Johnson's brusque decision. [1994, Robert J. McMahon, The cold war on the periphery: the United States, India, and Pakistan, page 323:]
  • Mr. Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s physical state. [2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • You roast him [the fish] […] just like a lump. [1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:]
  • “A lump,” explained The Whimperer […] “is wot a kin’ lady slips youse w’en youse batter de back door. If she invites youse in and lets youse t’row yer feet unner de table, it’s a set-down. If she slips youse a lunch in a poiper bag, it’s a lump. See? […]” [1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, chapter 12, in Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap:]

Etymology

From Middle English lumpe, from a Germanic base akin to Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide, go, hang loosely”). Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Low German Lump (“rag”), German Lumpen (“rag”) and Lump (“ragamuffin”). See: Middle English Nouns 'lumpe', Dutch Nouns 'lomp', German Nouns 'Lumpen'.

Verbs referencing "lump"

Catalan Nouns lumpus.