lumping

English

Etymology

From lump +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌmpɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
• Hyphenation: lump‧ing

Adjective

lumping (comparative more lumping, superlative most lumping)

1. Bulky; heavy.

   a lumping great thing

   • 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “The Discourse that Pass’d between Nic. Frog and Esquire South, which John Bull Overheard”, in Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 30:

     VVilt thou purchaſe it Nic.? thou ſhalt have a lumping Pennyvvorth; nay, rather than vve ſhould differ, I'll give thee ſomething to take it off my Hands.

Noun

lumping (plural lumpings)

1. gerund of lump: the act or result of lumping things together.
   • 1972, Wendell H. Oswalt, Other Peoples, Other Customs: World Ethnography and Its History:

     The systems called descriptive have fewer such lumpings; the terminology which prevails in the United States today serves as an example.

Verb

lumping

1. present participle and gerund of lump

Anagrams

• pluming