noun
Meaning 1
A mound or hillock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, rare
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Standard Lemma guide
tump
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/tʌmp/
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rhymes with -ʌmp
noun
Meaning 2
A tumpline.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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verb
Meaning 3
To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to tump teasel
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verb
Meaning 4
to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, transitive
Examples
- Don't tump that bucket over!
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verb
Meaning 5
To fall over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dialectal
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History
Etymology
Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.
Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).
Possibly from tumpoke.