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Clumped vs Clomped - What's the difference?

clumped | clomped |

As verbs the difference between clumped and clomped

is that clumped is past tense of clump while clomped is past tense of clomp.

clumped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (clump)

    • clump

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
  • A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
  • * Hawthorne
    • a clump of shrubby trees
  • A dull thud.
  • The compressed clay of coal strata.

    • Derived terms

    * clumpy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form clusters or lumps
  • To gather into thick groups
  • To walk with heavy footfalls.

    • Derived terms

    * clump up

    References

    English onomatopoeias

    clomped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clomp)

    • clomp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the sound of feet hitting the ground loudly

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) to walk with wooden shoes.
  • to move, making loud noises with one's feet
  • * 1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
    • ...so having smoothed my hair as well as I could, and repeatedly twitched my obdurate collar, I proceeded to clomp down the two flights of stairs, philosophizing as I went;