lump

Meanings

Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
A group, set, or unit.
A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
A dull or lazy person.
A beating or verbal abuse.
A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.

To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
To hit or strike (a person).

From Middle English lumpe, from a Germanic base akin to Proto-Germanic *limpaną. Compare Dutch lomp, German Low German Lump, German Lumpen and Lump.

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