Lumpkin

name, noun

name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A clumsy, heavy, stupid, silly or blundering person.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Butte County, California, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A small city, the county seat of Stewart County, Georgia, United States. countable, uncountable

Etymology

After Tony Lumpkin, an ignorant young man in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1771; first performed 1773).

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