lumping

comparative more lumping · superlative most lumping

1. Bulky; heavy.

   a lumping great thing

   1 more example

   VVilt thou purchaſe it Nic.? thou ſhalt have a lumping Pennyvvorth; nay, rather than vve ſhould differ, I'll give thee ſomething to take it off my Hands.

   1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “The Discourse that Pass’d between Nic. Frog and Esquire South, which John Bull Overheard”, in Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 30

plural lumpings

1. gerundgerund of lump: the act or result of lumping things together.

   The systems called descriptive have fewer such lumpings; the terminology which prevails in the United States today serves as an example.

   1972, Wendell H. Oswalt, Other Peoples, Other Customs: World Ethnography and Its History

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of lump