a. Also 6 lompish. [f. LUMP sb.1 (in some uses with mixture of the sense of LUMP v.2) + -ISH.]
1. Of material objects: Of cumbersome weight or bulk; not apt to be moved easily; heavy and unwieldy. ? Obs.
1545. Ascham, Toxoph., II. (Arb.), 125. It is better to haue a shafte … somewhat to lyght than ouer lumpysshe.
1683. Tryon, Way to Health, 105. It [boiling] makes it [food] lumpish, close, heavy, dull, and gross on the Pallate.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Earth, The Earth is called claiey or stiff Earth, when it … is lumpish, dull, heavy and cold.
2. Heavy and clumsy in appearance, shape or movement.
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (Camden), 226. Then should we have soon espied the lumpish and foul hands of our juggler.
1573. L. Lloyd, Pilgr. Princes, 19. From a rude & lumpish Chaos, the worlde waxed beautifull.
1671. Blagrave, Astrol. Physic, 127. A man of … swarthy complection, and of a lumpish countenance.
1777. G. Forster, Voy. round World, II. 539. The amphibious and lumpish animals which dwelt on Southern Georgia.
1820. Scott, Monast., xxix. Swelling lumpish hills.
1863. A. M. Bell, Princ. Speech, 179. A tongue which formerly lay lumpish and inert in the mouth.
1882. Q. Rev., Oct., 375. Seated statues, square and lumpish, like those brought from Branchidæ to the British Museum.
1894. Mrs. H. Ward, Marcella, III. 122. A governess, a schoolgirl, or a lumpish boy.
3. Stupidly dull, heavy or lethargic in action, thought or feeling; sluggishly inactive; slow-minded, unapprehensive.
1528. Paynel, Salerne’s Regim., B iv b. A lumpishe spirite causeth a sluggishe body.
1598. R. Bernard, trans. Terence, Heautont., V. i. Q vj. To be called a blockpate, a dulhead, an asse, a lumpish sot.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, vii. 141. The often and much vse of Lettuce … hindreth procreation,… and maketh the body lumpish.
1702. Pope, Jan. & May, 420. The lumpish husband snoar’d away the night.
1777. Burke, Lett. to Fox, Wks. IX. 150. An heavy, lumpish acquiescence in Government.
1782. Cowper, To Lady Austen, on a Flood at Olney. I then should have no need of wit, For lumpish Hollander unfit!
1868. Doran, Saints & Sin., II. 309. He was as nervous about dreams as the most lumpish of dairymaids.
1893. Nation (N. Y.), 12 Jan., 19/1. We do not believe this attitude of lumpish obstruction can be persisted in if the Democratic Senators do their duty.
† b. Insensible to. Obs.
1585. Parsons, Chr. Exerc., I. iv. 29. So dead we are, and lumpish to all goodnesse.
† 4. Low-spirited, dejected, melancholy, Obs.
1534. More, Comf. agst. Trib., II. Wks. 1196/1. He marketh well … mennes complexions … by whiche they be light hearted or lumpish.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 18. He looking lompish and full sullein sad.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., III. ii. 62. She is lumpish, heauy, mellancholly.
1602. Rowlands, Tis Merrie when Gossips meete, 9. The lumpish leaden melancholy thought.
1621. S. Ward, Life Faith, vii. 46. His faith cannot bee but lumpish and melancholly.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Phil. i. 14. Neither ever since that time have I felt any lumpish heavinesse.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 518, ¶ 9. A contracted brow, a lumpish down-cast look.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, II. 35. My Heart was so lumpish!
5. Of sound: Dull and heavy.
1742. Fielding, J. Andrews, III. ix. He fell prostrated on the floor with a lumpish noise.
a. 1764. Lloyd, Ode to Genius, Poet. Wks. 1774, II. 174. Lifeless and lumpish as the bagpipes drowzy drone.
1806–7. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life (1826), xvi. 90. The dead, lumpish, tubby tones of the fourth and fifth strings of the guittar.
† 6. In lumps, lumpy. Obs. (exc. as nonce-use).
1726. [T. Fitzgerald], Bedlam, a Poem, in Misc. Poems, etc., 10.
| Not so, when gloomy the black Bile prevails, | |
| And lumpish Phlegm the thicken’d Mass congeals. |
1735. Dyche & Pardon, Dict., Lumpish, in Clods or congealed Parcels.
1850. Maxwell, Lett., in Life, v. (1882), 145. Metallic bismuth … either powder or lumpish.
† b. Of liquor: Full of lumps, ropy. Obs.
1703. Art & Myst. Vintners, 35. Sack that is lumpish or lowring.
7. Comb.
1632. Dekker, Pref. Verse, in Brome’s North. Lasse. Thy Daughter … Is chaste and witty to the time; Not lumpish-cold, as is her Clime.
a. 1645. Heywood, Fort. by Land & Sea, I. i. Wks. 1874, VI. 366. Ther’s no mirth in me, nor was I wont to be so lumpish sad.
1863. Mrs. Gaskell, Dark Night’s Work, xii. 223. They’ve quite a different style of hand [in horsemanship], and sit all lumpish-like.
