lump

词源不详，可能来自拟声词，大块物体落地声音。比较bump,clump,dump,pump.

lump

lump: [13] The origins of lump are obscure. It presumably emerged from an imperfectly recorded medieval Germanic substratum of words for ‘coarse or shapeless things’ (also represented perhaps by Low German lump ‘coarse, heavy’ and Dutch lomp ‘rag’), but where this began is not known. The lump of like it or lump it [19] is a different word, of even more mysterious ancestry.

lump (n.)

early 14c., lumpe (1224 as surname), probably in Old English, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish lumpe, 16c.), of unknown origin. Compare also Middle High German lumpe, early modern Dutch lompe. Phrase lump in (one's) throat "feeling of tightness brought on by emotion" is from 1803. Lumps "hard knocks, a beating" is colloquial, from 1934. Lump sum, one covering a number of items, is from 1867.

lump (v.2)

"endure" (now usually in contrast to like), 1791, apparently an extended sense from an older meaning "to look sulky, dislike" (1570s), of unknown origin, perhaps a symbolic sound (compare grump, harumph, etc.). Related: Lumped; lumping.

LUMPING. Great. A lumping pennyworth; a great qualtity for the money, a bargain. He has got a lumping pennyworth; frequently said of a man who marries a fat woman. [Grose, "Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 3rd edition, 1796]

lump (v.1)

early 15c., "to curl up in a ball, to gather into a lump" (implied in lumped), from lump (n.). Meaning "to put together in one mass or group" is from 1620s. Related: Lumped; lumping.

1. They used to buy ten kilos of beef in one lump.

他们过去常买10公斤重的整块牛肉。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Howard had to have cancer surgery for a lump in his chest.

霍华德不得不进行肿瘤手术以切除胸部的肿块。

来自柯林斯例句

3. a lump of gristle

一块软骨

来自《权威词典》

4. She impaled a lump of meat on her fork.

她用叉子戳起一块肉。

来自《权威词典》

5. My hand came into contact with a small lump.

我摸到一个小肿块.

来自《简明英汉词典》