Jack. - Horntip

Lump hotel.
made to appear new when they were
old, or solid when they were flimsy.
3. (common).—A militia-man.
1869. BLACKMORE, Lorna Doone,
xxxviii. He was going to bring the
LUMPERS upon us.
4. in pl. (Irish).—Potatoes ;
MURPHIES (q.v.)
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 Han.
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, Diet., S.V. LUMPING,
large, heavy, great. A low word.
1796. GROSE, Vii 1g. Tongue, s.v.
. . He has got a Lt.impiNG pennyworth
; frequently said of a man who
marries a fat woman.
1851. H. :NIANTHEw, 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 PaAber 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
[GRos ART (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.
250 Lumpy.
1664. WILSON, Projectors, i. 1. At
home you're as sad and LUMPISH as a
gibb'd cat.
LUMP OF COKE, subs. phr. (rhym-
ing).—A BLOKE (q.v.); a man.
LUMP OF LEAD, subs. phr. (rhyming).
—The head ; the CRUMPET (q.v.).
Lu MPSHIOUS, adv. (common).—
Delicious : cf. SCRUMPTIOUS.
1844. BUCKSTONE, The Maid with
the Milking-fiail. Hilly. What, paint
me ? Paint me on a board and hang
me up against a wall ! Oh, that will be
LumPsfnus ! And then I can sit and
look at myself all day long.
LUMPY, adj. (common).— I . Drunk.
For synonyms see DRINKS and
SCREWED.
2. (common).—Pregnant.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. To BE
awkward ; bellied-up, big ; bigbellied,
on the bones ; bow- (or
hay-) windowed, cocked-up, double-ribbed,
in an interesting condition,
in for it, in pod, in the
pudding-club, jumbled-up, knocked-up,
loaded ; on the bones ; sewed-up,
short-skirted, trussed-up,
or wedged-up. To HAVE one's
apron up ; a belly-ful, or a belly-ful
of bones ; one's cargo aboard ; a
nine months' dropsy (or a dropsy
that will drop into the lap) ; one's
fairing ; fallen ; got it ; a hump in
front (or on one's belly); an inside
worry ; a kick in the back ; a lapclap
; more in one's belly than
ever got there through one's
mouth ; young ; a white swelling.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Avoir le
ventre or le sac plein (= to be
bellied-up); avoir un arlequin
dans la soupente of harlots :
arlequin = a prostitute's brat ;