单词 | lumpish |
释义 | lump·ish 1. < 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 < she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy — Shakespeare > 3. < 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. < her heavy riding jacket was lumpish across her square solid shoulders — H.E.Bates > 5. a. < lifeless and lumpish as the bagpipes drowsy drone — Robert Lloyd > b. < 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 • lump·ish·ness |
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