tump

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mound or hillock. UK,rare
    — 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.
  2. A tumpline. uncommon
动词 v.
  1. To form a mass of earth or a hillock around. transitive
    — to tump teasel
  2. to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump") Southern-US,transitive
    — Don't tump that bucket over!
  3. To fall over. Southern-US,intransitive
  4. To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed. US,dialectal
    — 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.

词形变化

tumps plural tumps present,singular,third-person tumping participle,present tumped participle,past tumped past tumps present,singular,third-person tumping participle,present tumped participle,past tumped past tumps plural

词源

词源 1
Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.
词源 2
Possibly from tumpoke.
词源 3
Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).
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