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Clumped vs Clumper - What's the difference?

clumped | clumper |

As verbs the difference between clumped and clumper

is that clumped is (clump) while clumper is (obsolete|intransitive) to form into clumps or masses.

As a noun clumper is

a grass or other plant that tends to form clumps.

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

    clumper

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A grass or other plant that tends to form clumps.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 5, author=Anne Raver, title=A Cane the World Can Lean On, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Bamboo can be as delicate as the umbrella bamboo, Fargesia murieliae, a clumper with soft pea-green foliage and a weeping habit, or as heroic as Phyllostachys edulis, whose sturdy olive-green canes can grow 70 feet in a single season. }}

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) . See clump (noun).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To form into clumps or masses.
  • * (rfdate), Dr. H. More
    • Vapours clumpered in balls of clouds.
    (Webster 1913)