- 1笨重遲緩的（偏書面，少用於口語）
Lumpish means heavy and awkward, like a person who moves as if they were a lump — slow, , not light on their feet.
Lumpish means heavy and awkwardLumpish的意思是笨重又笨拙，like a person who moves as if they were a lump像一個人動起來好像自己是塊肉疙瘩——slow動作慢、clumsy笨手笨腳、not light on their feet腳步不輕盈。
It can also colour the mind or the mood: lumpish silence, a lumpish afternoon, someone who seems dull and hard to stir.
It can also colour the mind or the mood它也可以形容心情或氣氛：lumpish silence像lumpish silence沉悶的沉默、a lumpish afternoon沉悶的下午、someone who seems dull and hard to stir一個顯得呆滯、很難被逗動的人。
It is an old-fashioned, slightly word. You will meet it in stories and older writing more than at the shops.
It is an old-fashioned, slightly bookish word它是個老派、有點書卷氣的字。You will meet it in stories and older writing你會在故事和較舊的文章裡遇到它，more than at the shops比較不會在店裡聽到。
People still use it, but often with a half-smile, as if they know it sounds a bit like a word from a novel.
People still use it大家還是會用它，but often with a half-smile但常常帶著一絲微笑，as if they know it sounds a bit like a word from a novel好像知道這個字聽起來有點像小說裡的用語。
Though actually, it is about how someone sits in the world — heavy, not flowing — not about a body being covered in lumps. A mattress has lumps; a lumpish boy is awkward.
Though actually不過事實上，it is about how someone sits in the world它講的是一個人在世界上呈現的樣子——heavy沉重、not flowing不流暢——not about a body being covered in lumps而不是身上長滿了疙瘩。A lumpy mattress has lumps一張lumpy mattress凹凸不平的床墊上有疙瘩；a lumpish boy is awkward而一個lumpish boy笨拙的男孩是動作笨拙。
core核心畫面
組成From lump plus -ish, 'somewhat like'. Older English also had lumprissh, 'a bit like a lump'.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lumpishadj/ˈlʌmpɪʃ/
- 1
Having an ill-defined or rough form or shape like a lump; lumplike.
- The Sprite […] lifting vp his lompiſh head, vvth blame / Halfe angrie asked him, for vvhat he came.
- It ſeems to me that mere unmixed uglineſs does not ariſe from ſharp angles, or from any ſudden variation, but rather from that want of form, that unſhapen lumpiſh appearance, vvhich, perhaps, no one vvord exactly expreſſes; a quality that never can be miſtaken for beauty, never can adorn it, and vvhich is equally unconnected vvith the ſublime and the pictureſque.
- 2
Awkward and ungainly in appearance or movement; clumsy, inelegant.
- [H]e emerged from some struggling trees, and looked out upon a wild moorish country, composed of a succession of swelling lumpish hills, […]
- Continental soldiers looked lumpish beside our lean-bred fellows: but against my supple Nejdis the British in their turn looked lumpish.
- 3
Dull and slow in acting, thinking, etc.; without energy; cloddish, lethargic, slow-witted, sluggish.
- So forth he vvent, / VVith heauy looke and lumpiſh pace, that plaine / In him bevvraid great grudge and maltalent; / His ſteed eke ſeemd t'apply his ſteps to his intent.
- [A] ſong I prethee, I loue theſe French moouings; oh they are ſo cleane if you treade them true, you ſhal hit them to a haire; ſing, ſing, ſing ſome odde and fantaſticall thing, for I cannot abide these dull and lumpiſh tunes, the Muſition ſtands longer a pricking them then I vvould doe to heare them: no, no, no, giue mee your light ones, that goe nimbly and quicke, and are full of changes, and carrie ſvveet deuiſion […]
- 4
Of sound: dull, heavy.
- The uplifted Hanger dropped from his Hand, and he fell proſtrate on the Floor vvith a lumpiſh Noiſe, and his Halfpence rattled in his Pocket; the red Liquor vvhich his Veins contained, and the vvhite Liquor vvhich the Pot contained, ran in one Stream dovvn his Face and his Clothes.
- Thou bear'ſt aloof, and look'ſt vvith high diſdain, / Upon the dull mechanic train; / VVhoſe nerveleſs ſtrains flag on in languid tone, / Lifeless and lumpiſh as the bagpipe's drovvzy drone.
- 5
obsoleteFull of lumps; lumpy.
- 6
obsoleteOf a thing: having a shape and/or weight which makes it inconvenient to move; cumbersome, unwieldy.
- [I]t is better to have a ſhaft [of an arrow] a litle to ſhort than over longe, ſomevvhat to light, than over lumpiſhe, a litle to ſmal, than a greate deale to big, […]
- 7
obsoleteMiserable, sad.
- He [the Devil] marketh well […] mennes complexions within thẽ [them], health, or ſicknes, good humours or badde, by which they be light hearted or lumpiſh, ſtrong hearted, or faynt & fieble of ſpirite, bolde and hardy, or timorous and fearefull of courage.
- After them vvent Diſpleaſure and Pleaſaunce, / He looking lompiſh and full ſullein ſad, / And hanging dovvne his heauy countenaunce; / She chearfull freſh and full of ioyaunce glad, / As if no ſorrovv ſhe ne felt ne dread; […]
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