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Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases
A heavy misshapen mass of wood or stone. B. N.C. M.s. H.H. H.A.D. CLUMPISH,
or CLUMPY. Heavy, sullen, stupid, uncommunicative. A metaphorical use of the
preceding word; as inanimate as a "clump of wood." "How dumpish she is to day.
Anne Elizabeth Baker, 1854
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Debating Diversity: Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance
A constant element in these processes is the facile recourse to the notion of '
culture', that 'clumpish term, which by gathering up so many activities and
attributes into one common bundle may actually confuse or disguise
discriminations that ...
Jan Blommaert, Jef Verschueren, 2002
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The English dialect dictionary
... b); (d) a j. of a person: thick-set, stumpy; (e) a j., see Clumpish (cl. (1) an.1 (o, a)
N.Cy.1, Nab! w.Yks. WILLA'N' Li'sl ths. (1811]. (b) Illlev.l (c) Nbp.' How clumpish
she is to-day. (3'; Se. His e'ebrces were clumpit, DONALD Poems (1867) 2-2.
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A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape ...
be observed as in the smaller groups, in order to prevent them from growing up in
heavy, clumpish forms. The outline must be flowing, here projecting out into the
grass, there receding back into the plantation, in order to take off all appearance
...
Andrew Jackson Downing, Henry Winthrop Sargent, 1859
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A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. By Francis Grose
Clumpish; lumpish, stupid. CLUNcn. An awkward elownish fellow. To CLUcH
THE FIsT. To clcnch orshut the hand. Clutchfisted; covetous, stingy. See CLosE-
Fl~'l'r-ID. CLIm'cuss. llands, gripe, power. CLuTTrR. A stir, noise, or racket; what a
...
His dress is simple and neat; his feet and hands are small, but his fingers are
short and clumpish, showing that he is not anxious to talk of his grand-father. His
manners are retiring and unobtrusive, not as if he lacked selfrespect, but as if he
...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
His dress is simple and neat; his feet and hands are small, but his fingers are
short and clumpish, showing that he .is not anxious to talk of his grand-father. His
manners are retiring and unobtrusive, not as if he lacked selfrespect, but as if he
...
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, 1837
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Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum, Or, the Trees and ...
As age comes on, its round clumpish head becomes more flat, spreading itself
into a canopy, which is a form equally becoming; and yet I doubt whether any
resinous tree ever attains that picturesque beauty in age which we admire so
much in ...
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Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants
... Regent's Park, cannot have failed noticing notwithstanding the admirable
culture and dazzling array of beauty, which at the moment all but exclusively
arrests the attention, the somewhat clumpish monotony of form which
predominates in the ...
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Lexicon Balatronicum. A dictionary of Buckish slang, ...
Clumpish; lumpish, stupid. CLUNOH. An awkward clownish fellow. CLUNCH
THE FIST. To clench or shut the hand. Clunchfisted; covetous, stingy. See
CLOSE-FISTED. CLUTCHES. Hands, gripe, power. CLUTTER. A stir, noise, or
racket: ...
Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, 1823
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Andy Murray v Mikhail Kukushkin: Wimbledon 2015 – as it happened
Kukushkin should save himself, but advancing the net yet again, he hoicks a clumpish forehand out of play. He's given the break straight back ... «The Guardian, Июн 15»
