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单词 tump
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tumpn.

Brit. /tʌmp/, U.S. /təmp/
Forms: Also 1500s tumpe, 1600s toompe, tomp.
Etymology: Not found before end of 16th cent.; chiefly a western and west midland word; see Eng. Dial. Dict.; origin obscure. Also in Welsh twmp (compare Buttington Tump in Montgomeryshire); but this may be from English. Welsh has also Twmpath (in Mabinogion twympath), ‘a clump or tuft of rough grass, a barrow or tumulus’, etc., with which compare tumpet in Eng. Dial. Dict.
1. A hillock, mound, a mole-hill, or ant-hill; a barrow, tumulus. local.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > small mound
balkc885
bankc1175
hill1297
hillock1382
mow?1424
sunka1522
tump1589
anthill1598
pustule1651
mound1791
hag1805
moundlet1808
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > hillock
barrowc885
burrowc885
berryc1000
knapc1000
knollc1000
ball1166
howa1340
toft1362
hillocka1382
tertre1480
knowec1505
hilleta1552
hummock1555
mountainettea1586
tump1589
butt1600
mountlet1610
mounture1614
colline1641
tuft1651
knock?17..
tummock1789
mound1791
tomhan1811
koppie1848
tuffet1877
1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde sig. G4 They brought him vnawares to a dunghill, taking it for a tumpe, since a Tombe might not be had.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 84 (note) No traces remained..but highe and rounde toompes of earth.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 283 Tomps of erth.
1670 J. Evelyn Pomona vii. 24 in Sylva (ed. 2) To raise Tumps, or temporary banks in the midst of an Inclosure.
1763 J. Hutchins in W. C. Lukis Mem. W. Stukeley (1883) II. 133 On the top of the hill..are small tumps.
1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 313 Cutting up anthills, or tumps, as we call them.
1881 E. A. Freeman in Life & Lett. (1895) II. 245 A few tumps so old that you can tell nothing about them.
1891 Kelly's P.O. Guide Herefordsh. 1 Tump is a peculiar term for barrow hills in the western shires..the Tumps at Bolston, Horne Lacy, and Hope Mansel.
2. A clump of trees or shrubs; a clump of grass, esp. one forming a dry spot in a bog or fen. local.
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the world > plants > plants collectively > [noun] > tuft, clump, or cluster of plants
hassockc1450
tuft?1523
tusk1530
tush1570
hill1572
dollop1573
clumpa1586
rush1593
trail1597
tussock1607
wreath1610
stool1712
tump1802
sheaf1845
massif1888
1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Snipe—Common The nest..is placed on a tump or dry spot.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. iii. 38 He..looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.
1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley I. xvii. 273 Every tump of wiry grass.
3. A heap of anything; a hay-cock or rick; a heap of stones. local.Also a store-heap of potatoes, turnips, etc., covered with straw and earth ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > heap or pile
heapc725
cockeOE
hill1297
tassc1330
glub1382
mow?1424
bulkc1440
pile1440
pie1526
bing1528
borwen1570
ruck1601
rick1608
wreck1612
congest1625
castle1636
coacervation1650
congestion1664
cop1666
cumble1694
bin1695
toss1695
thurrock1708
rucklea1725
burrow1784
mound1788
wad1805
stook1865
boorach1868
barrow1869
sorites1871
tump1892
fid1926
clamp-
1892 Stratford-on-Avon Herald 5 Aug. 4/2 To sell by Auction,..Tump of Old Hay about 2 tons.
1905 Daily News 24 Jan. 6 A tump of rubbish.
4. figurative. Trivial writing, bad prose.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [noun] > bad prose
proseology1850
tump1917
1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 172 It's the most vital, arresting and dynamic bit of tump I've done up to date.
1933 D. L. Murray Eng. Family Robinson ii. 36 Did you ever read such tump as our parish magazine?

Derivatives

ˈtumpy adj. of ground: humpy, hummocky.
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1825 in Eng. Dial. Dict.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tumpv.1

Etymology: < tump n.
local.
To make a ‘tump’ or mound about the root of a tree. Also, to store roots in a tump ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > make mound about roots of tree
tump1727
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II To Tump, to fence trees.

Derivatives

ˈtumping n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > (making) mounds about roots
tumping1721
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Tumping, a sort of Fencing for Trees.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Paling This Method is..more chargeable than Tumping.., but much more durable.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Paling Tumping, a sort of Fencing in Fields, when a Tree is set..no deeper than to make it stand, tho' all the Roots be not cover'd, till the Tump or Mould be raised about it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

tumpv.2

Etymology: Origin obscure: compare tump-line n.
U.S.
transitive. To drag or carry by means of a tump-line.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > draw along or haul [verb (transitive)] > of a person > by a strap around forehead
tump1855
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. ix. 268 A man passed the..barrack gate, tumping (..which means..hauling,) an immense bull moose on a sled.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) To Tump. Probably an Indian word... ‘We tumped the deer to our cabin’. (Maine.)
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

tumpv.3

Brit. /tʌmp/, U.S. /təmp/
Etymology: Probably representing a colloquial pronunciation of thump v.; compare tump-tump n.
U.S. dialect and colloquial.
transitive. To strike (a person) forcibly; to pound, thump. Also, to knock down or over roughly.
ΚΠ
1893 S. Crane Maggie x. 89 ‘..I'll tump 'im till he can't stand.’.. ‘What's deh use! Yeh'll git pulled in!’
1926 E. Walrond Tropic Death i. 28 Shut up befor' I tump yo' down!
1931 Amer. Speech 7 31 Negro Vocabulary... tump v., thump.
1977 Amer. Speech 1975 50 68 Tump over, tip or knock over. ‘Don't tump over that glass!’
1983 Dallas Morning News 22 May f1/5 I wuz gonna take a big drank of muh Arro Cee Cola until you came by and tumped it over.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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