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Lumpish

//ˈlʌmpɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having an ill-defined or rough form or shape like a lump; lumplike.

    "The Sprite […] lifting vp his lompiſh head, vvth blame / Halfe angrie asked him, for vvhat he came."

  2. 2
    Awkward and ungainly in appearance or movement; clumsy, inelegant. figuratively

    "[H]e emerged from some struggling trees, and looked out upon a wild moorish country, composed of a succession of swelling lumpish hills, […]"

  3. 3
    Dull and slow in acting, thinking, etc.; without energy; cloddish, lethargic, slow-witted, sluggish. figuratively

    "So forth he vvent, / VVith heauy looke and lumpiſh pace, that plaine / In him bevvraid great grudge and maltalent; / His ſteed eke ſeemd t'apply his ſteps to his intent."

  4. 4
    Of sound: dull, heavy. figuratively

    "The uplifted Hanger dropped from his Hand, and he fell proſtrate on the Floor vvith a lumpiſh Noiſe, and his Halfpence rattled in his Pocket; the red Liquor vvhich his Veins contained, and the vvhite Liquor vvhich the Pot contained, ran in one Stream dovvn his Face and his Clothes."

  5. 5
    Full of lumps; lumpy. obsolete
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  1. 6
    Of a thing: having a shape and/or weight which makes it inconvenient to move; cumbersome, unwieldy. obsolete

    "[I]t is better to have a ſhaft [of an arrow] a litle to ſhort than over longe, ſomevvhat to light, than over lumpiſhe, a litle to ſmal, than a greate deale to big, […]"

  2. 7
    Miserable, sad. figuratively, obsolete

    "He [the Devil] marketh well […] mennes complexions within thẽ [them], health, or ſicknes, good humours or badde, by which they be light hearted or lumpiſh, ſtrong hearted, or faynt & fieble of ſpirite, bolde and hardy, or timorous and fearefull of courage."

Adjective
  1. 1
    mentally sluggish wordnet

Etymology

Partly: * from Late Middle English lumprissh, lumpryssh (“of a somewhat lumpy consistency”), from lumpe (“mass of material; excrescence, swelling; mass of people, crowd; useless person”) or lumpred (“piled up or twisted into lumps”) (both possibly related to Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide; to go; to hang limply”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang limply”)) + -ish (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of the nature of; similar to; somewhat’); and * from lump (noun, verb) + -ish. Compare English lumber.

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