tumpとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Compare Welsh twmp, twm.

名詞

tump (複数形 tumps)

1. (Britain, rare) A mound or hillock.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.

   • 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone:

     […] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.

派生語

• Wormelow Tump

動詞

tump (三人称単数 現在形 tumps, 現在分詞 tumping, 過去形および過去分詞形 tumped)

1. (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.

   to tump teasel

語源 2

Possibly from tumpoke.

動詞

tump (三人称単数 現在形 tumps, 現在分詞 tumping, 過去形および過去分詞形 tumped)

1. (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" かつ "dump")

   Don't tump that bucket over!

2. (intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
3. (US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
   • 1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance:

     To reach our sleeping quarters under the roof we were obliged to climb seven flights of stairs and after tumping a blanket roll and a ruck-sack up these, both our breath and enthusiasm had suffered abatement.

語源 3

Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).

名詞

tump (複数形 tumps)

2. (uncommon) A tumpline.