Lumpkin
name, noun
name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A clumsy, heavy, stupid, silly or blundering person.
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 An unincorporated community in Butte County, California, United States. countable, uncountable
- 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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