Definition of Tumpy

1. hummocky [adj TUMPIER, TUMPIEST] - See also: hummocky

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumpy

tumourlike
tumourous
tumourously
tumours
tump
tump over
tumped
tumphies
tumphy
tumpier
tumpiest
tumping
tumpline
tumplines
tumps
tumpy (current term)
tums
tumshie
tumshies
tumtums
tumular
tumulary
tumuli
tumulose
tumulosities
tumulosity
tumulous
tumult
tumulted

Literary usage of Tumpy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"-Ak.] t tumpy, adj. uneven, covered with hillocks. Tun, the top of a chimney. [Ak. adds — 'up the tun,' up the chimney. Turf, cakes for firing, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"tumpy. Uneven; baring tumps. West. TUN. (1) A tub ; a barrel. Also a verb, to put liquor into casks or barrels. ..."

3. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"Its empty air, accompanied by those tnm-tumpy triplets of the mid-century Italian opera-scores will allay promptly the most inconvenient congestion of ..."

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