Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mound.
- noun A clump of trees, shrubs, or grass.
- intransitive verb To overturn. Often used with over.
- intransitive verb To fall over. Often used with over.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In horticulture, to form a mass of earth or a hillock round (a plant): as, to
tump teazel. - noun A little hillock; a heap; a clump.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little hillock; a knoll.
- transitive verb To form a mass of earth or a hillock about.
- transitive verb Local, U. S. To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, rare A
mound orhillock . - verb transitive, southern US to
bump ,knock (usually used with "over") - verb intransitive, southern US To fall over.
- verb To form a mass of earth or a hillock about.
- verb US, dialect To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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She's not letting go of "tump," which means "to accidentally knock over," any time soon.
World Hum 2009
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I also learned the word “tump” as in “tump over that wagon and get her out of there.”
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Tow-line and pole, paddle and tump-line, rapids and portages, -- such tortures served to give the one a deep digust for great hazards, and printed for the other a fiery text on the true romance of adventure.
In a Far Country 2010
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Tow-line and pole, paddle and tump-line, rapids and portages, -- such tortures served to give the one a deep digust for great hazards, and printed for the other a fiery text on the true romance of adventure.
In a Far Country 2010
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Koyokuk, the toil of pick and shovel, the scars and mars of pack-strap and tump-line, the straight meat diet with the dogs, and all the long procession of twenty full years of toil and sweat and endeavor.
Chapter III 2010
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Then you might as well tump over riding a fiberglass chicken.
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Well, [emphasis] tump . . . [slight pause] . . . [equal emphasis] me.
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Cindy, you could tump over and conk your head wobbling on one of those things.
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They're made of the thinnest cardboard allowable by law, and they always collected pools of unwanted dye at the bottom, and you'd always gets drippy, crappy eggs by the time they dried - that is, if the whole thing didn't collapse and tump all your precious masterpieces to the floor.
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They're made of the thinnest cardboard allowable by law, and they always collected pools of unwanted dye at the bottom, and you'd always gets drippy, crappy eggs by the time they dried - that is, if the whole thing didn't collapse and tump all your precious masterpieces to the floor.
mossygams commented on the word tump
To overturn, especially a container filled with liquid
December 4, 2006
yarb commented on the word tump
A hillock.
September 25, 2007
reesetee commented on the word tump
Trivet! Another one for your "Over Hill" list! :-)
September 25, 2007
trivet commented on the word tump
ooooh, ooooh!
*yoink*
September 25, 2007
yarb commented on the word tump
Hang on - specifically a barrow, I think. I.e. man-made. Is that still OK?
September 25, 2007
trivet commented on the word tump
Yes, thanks for the clarification!
September 25, 2007
treeseed commented on the word tump
bowl barrow
February 18, 2008
yarb commented on the word tump
...dumped among bins
and tumps of fetid garbage and coils of rank
sloppy dog faces in an ill-lit alley...
- Peter Reading, Found, from Diplopic, 1983
June 30, 2008
missmurgatroyd commented on the word tump
mostly a hill, but not necessarily a barrow. Some tumps are the remains of Norman motte and bailey style wooden forts. The defences are long gone, and only the hill, the tump, remains. A bit like stump and hump, I guess.
July 16, 2008
grant_barrett commented on the word tump
This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.
November 11, 2009
nancybrian commented on the word tump
From Savannah, GA; to Shreveport, LA and beyond; “tump” has been used in most parts of the south since at least 1880 (according to my family history). My grandmother was born in 1900 and she learned the word from her parents who were born in 1880. It is a common word in the south of the US (usually used with the word "over "). It means the act of an object tipping over and spilling or, in the case of boats, turning over. Examples: 1. The sailboat tumped over in the stormy weather. 2. Please don't tump your glass over.
November 12, 2012
nancybrian commented on the word tump
From Savannah, GA; to Shreveport, LA and beyond; “tump” has been used in most parts of the south since at least 1880 (according to my family history). My grandmother was born in 1900 and she learned the word from her parents who were born in 1880. It is a common word in the south of the US (usually used with the word "over "). It means the act of an object tipping over and spilling or, in the case of boats, turning over. Examples: 1. The sailboat tumped over in the stormy weather. 2. Please don't tump your glass over.
November 12, 2012