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語源 1

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

名詞

tump (plural tumps)

1. (UK, 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

動詞

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

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

   to tump teasel

語源 2

Possibly from tumpoke, or possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump".

動詞

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

1. (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over")

   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 (plural tumps)

1. (uncommon) A tumpline.