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Webster 1913 Edition


Clumpy

Clump′y

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Adj.
[From
Clump
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Noun.
]
Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.
Leigh Hunt.

Definition 2024


clumpy

clumpy

English

Adjective

clumpy (comparative clumpier, superlative clumpiest)

  1. Forming or tending to form clumps.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
      Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough []
  2. Resembling a clump.
  3. Clompy; with heavy footfalls.
    • 1920, Eleanor H. Porter, Mary Marie
      Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear.