Meanings
plural tummals
- CornwallUKdialectalobsoleteA great quantity or heap.
"It's pure gowld," said Betty, " and wuth tummals of money."
1863, John Tillotson, The boy's yearly book, page 732 more examples
Sich powerful tummals of beastes was there, / One cud gist e'ne scrouge room for to stond in the fere.
1846, Jan Treenoodle, Specimens of Cornish provincial dialect, page 27[…] it's a good thing for she to get a husbind that can give her a goulden coach to ride in, if she's got a mind to it. But there, her pretty face is wuth a tummal of money[…]
1878, Frances Eliza Millett Notley, Love's crosses
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tummal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tummal
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