Noun: clump
| Singular | clump |
| Plural | clumps |
Sample Sentences
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There are suitable clumps of gorse a little way back, sir. I anticipate that you would be quite safe there, or I would not suggest it, sir. [1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:]
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clump of trees [1954, Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator), Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)]
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She [Miss Climpson] asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush. She is the angel that rushes in where fools get a clump on the head. [1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death:]
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Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters. [1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:]
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clump-burned bricks [1837, The Magazine of Domestic Economy:]
Nouns inflected like clump
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”).
2. Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Doublet of klomp.
3. Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump. See: Middle English Nouns '
clompe', Old English Nouns '
clymppe', German Nouns '
Klumpen', Danish Nouns '
klump', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
klump'.
Verbs referencing "clump"
English Nouns
club, Dutch Nouns
klomp, German Nouns
Klumpen, Russian Nouns
клумба, Ukrainian Nouns
клумба, Polish Nouns
klomb.