tump

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʌmp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Etymology 1

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

Noun

tump (plural tumps)

1. (British, rare) A mound or hillock.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.

   • 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone:

     […] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.

Derived terms

• Wormelow Tump

Verb

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

1. (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.

   to tump teasel

Etymology 2

Possibly from tumpoke.

Verb

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

1. (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")

   Don't tump that bucket over!

2. (intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
3. (US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
   • 1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance:

     To reach our sleeping quarters under the roof we were obliged to climb seven flights of stairs and after tumping a blanket roll and a ruck-sack up these, both our breath and enthusiasm had suffered abatement.

Etymology 3

Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).

Noun

tump (plural tumps)

2. (uncommon) A tumpline.

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

tump m (genitive singular tumpa, nominative plural tumpanna)

1. butt, thump

Declension

Declension of tump

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative tump tumpanna Vocative a thump a thumpanna Genitive tumpa tumpanna Dative tump tumpanna

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an tump na tumpanna Genitive an tumpa na dtumpanna Dative leis an tump don tump leis na tumpanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tump	thump	dtump
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tump”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN