Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered or filled with lumps.
- adjective Thickset or cumbersome.
- adjective Exhibiting short jumbled waves; choppy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in lumps or small aggregated masses; consisting of or formed into lumps.
- Heavy; clumsy; dense; dull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of lumps, or small compact masses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of
lumps , notsmooth .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having lumps; not smooth and even in texture
- adjective like or containing small sticky lumps
Etymologies
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Examples
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So we continue to use the word lumpy for a lot of our results, but that's basically the nature of our business.
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And as you know by following us, it has been and I'll use the word lumpy again quarter-over-quarter.
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So when I use the word lumpy, I mean it can be really lumpy.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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But our point here I think is that this business has always been what everyone describes as lumpy, and I think you will see as the year progresses a higher amount of new loans.
unknown title 2008
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One supposed breakthrough is the discovery that CO2 is not "well-mixed" through the global troposphere (mid-level atmosphere), but is actually "lumpy" - distributed in higher concentrations in two "belts" circling the globe, especially in Northern hemisphere, which is more heavily industrialized.
OpenMarket.org 2009
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"There are increasingly opportunities we can buy, and these opportunities are what I'd call lumpy and large."
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Knowing his character well, the sturdy wife of Grabantak had made up her mind that Koyatuk should wed a young intelligent, and what you may call lumpy girl named Chukkee, who was very fond of the huge and lazy youth, and who, being herself good-natured and unselfish, would be sure to make him a good wife.
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-- Colonel Mundy, in _Our Antipodes_, says that the word _nugget_ was, before the days of gold digging, used by the farmers of Australia to express a small thick bullock, such as our English farmers would call a lumpy one, or a little great one.
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Also shows how to use a grabber in your marketing to enhance response rates and increase sales, oherwise known as lumpy mail.
Web Advertising and Website Marketing - By Rob Scribner admin 2010
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Now instead of being known as the lumpy headed guy, he's the lumpy headed guy with a porn star-quality 'stache.
bilby commented on the word lumpy
Casino jargon: an inexperienced dealer.
March 5, 2013