Etymology

dump

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Today it means: A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. Full definition →

Middle English dumpen ← Old Norse dumpa
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dump · noun, verb1

  1. Old Norse · derived fromdumpa“to thump”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromdumpen
  3. English todaydump

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.

dump · noun2

See dumpling.

dump · noun3

Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).

Dump · proper noun4

From dump, as a pun on Trump.

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