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tump¹

  • /tʌmp/

Rhymes with -ʌmp

Where it comes from

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

noun tumps

  1. UK, rare A mound or hillock. 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.

verb tumps · tumping · tumped

  1. transitive To form a mass of earth or a hillock around. to tump teasel

tump²

  • /tʌmp/

Rhymes with -ʌmp

Where it comes from

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

verb tumps · tumping · tumped

  1. Southern US, transitive to bump, knock (usually used with "over") Don't tump that bucket over!
  2. Southern US, intransitive To fall over.
  3. US, dialectal To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed. 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.

tump³

  • /tʌmp/

Rhymes with -ʌmp

Where it comes from

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

noun tumps

  1. uncommon A tumpline.

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@misc{tump_2026,
  title = {tump},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tump},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}