Mump vs Tump - What's the difference?
mump | tump |
To mumble, speak unclearly.
To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
* 1630 , Taylor
To beg, especially if using a repeated phrase.
To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
* Burke
To be sullen or sulky.
(Webster 1913)
(British, rare) A mound or hillock.
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
(Southern US) To fall over.
(US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
As verbs the difference between mump and tump
is that mump is to mumble, speak unclearly while tump is to form a mass of earth or a hillock about or tump can be (southern us) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump").As a noun tump is
(british|rare) a mound or hillock or tump can be (uncommon) a tumpline.mump
English
Verb
(en verb)- He mumps , and lowres, and hangs the lip.
- And then when mumping with a sore leg, canting and whining.
Derived terms
* Mumping Daytump
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) twmp, twm.Noun
(en noun)- The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.
- (Ainsworth)
Etymology 2
Possibly from .Verb
(en verb)- Don't tump that bucket over!
- (Bartlett)