1846. Punch, x. 170. ’Twill tache him to be cuffin’ at me with his
ridin’ whip when he rode over my acre and ruined my lumpers for me.
5. (scientific).—One who lumps together several species: as opposed to
a splitter (q.v.).
1888. Nature, xxxix. 156. The happy medium between lumpers and
splitters.
Lump hotel. See Lump, sense 2.
Lumping, adj. (old: now colloquial).—Heavy; bulky; awkward.
1678. Four for a Penny, in Harl. Misc. (ed. Park), iv. 148. Their
chief customers that bring the lumping bargains.
d. 1735. Arbuthnot (in Johnson).—Nick, thou shalt have a lumping
pennyworth.
1755. Johnson, Dict., s.v. Lumping, large, heavy, great. A low
word.
1796. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.... He has got a lumping pennyworth;
frequently said of a man who marries a fat woman.
1851. H. Mayhew, Lon. Lab. and Lon. Poor, i. 163. He gives what is
called the lumping hap’orth, that is seven or eight pieces [of hot
eel with the soup].
1887. Boys Own Paper Xmas No., p. 3. Slick’s Welsh cow-boy (a
lumping yokel of forty summers and as many winters).
Lumpish, adj. (old).—Melancholy; dull; dispirited and heavy.
1592. Nashe, Pierce Penilesse [Grosart (1885), ii. 82]. Heavy,
lumpish, and sleepie.
1621. Burton, Anatomy (ed. 1852), i. 169. We call him melancholy
that is dull, sad, sour, lumpish, ill-disposed, solitary.
1664. Wilson, Projectors, i. 1. At home you’re as sad and lumpish
as a gibb’d cat.
Lump of Coke, subs. phr. (rhyming).—A bloke (q.v.); a man.
Lump of lead, subs. phr. (rhyming).—The head; the crumpet (q.v.).
Lumpshious, adv.. (common).—Delicious: cf. scrumptious.
1844. Buckstone, The Maid with the Milking-pail. Milly. What, paint
me? Paint me on a board and hang me up against a wall! Oh, that
will be lumpshius! And then I can sit and look at myself all day
long.
Lumpy, adj. (common).—1. Drunk. For synonyms see Drinks and Screwed.