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单词 lumpish
释义 lump·ish
\ˈləmpish\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English lumpisch, from lump (I) + -isch, -ish -ish
1. : being stupid or sluggish in speech or action
 < the long frontier struggles added courage … a doggedness which was never lumpish — John Buchan >
 < the hitherto lumpish girl pleaded with real inspiration — Victoria Sackville-West >
2. obsolete : being low in spirits : dejected
 < she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy — Shakespeare >
3. : having a heavy appearance : awkward and clumsy of movement
 < the great bulk of them … were joyless matrons and their lumpish daughters — Alistair Cooke >
 < the prime beef cow, with the lumpish awkward Brahma and the Shorthorn — Green Peyton >
4. : lumpy 1
 < her heavy riding jacket was lumpish across her square solid shoulders — H.E.Bates >
5.
 a. : having or producing a dull heavy often unpleasant sound or tone
  < lifeless and lumpish as the bagpipes drowsy drone — Robert Lloyd >
 b. : having a tedious pedantic style of writing : boring
  < written in “translator's English” of a peculiarly lumpish kind — Howard M. Jones >
  < the novels therefore … are lumpish and dull — Virginia Woolf >
lump·ish·ly adverb
lump·ish·ness noun -es
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