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A noun that's also an instruction: just put up with it already.
means A shapeless mass or swelling — or, as a verb, to endure something grudgingly without complaint (as in 'lump it').
from Lump surfaces in Middle English, likely borrowed from or related to Low German or Dutch words for a shapeless mass — 'lompe' and kin show up across North Sea languages, all clustered around clumsy, heavy, formless things. The verb sense in phrases like 'like it or lump it' came later, probably riffing on the noun's dead weight: to 'lump' something is to swallow it whole, the way you'd choke down a lump rather than chew it properly.
- origin
- 14th century Germanic, same root as clump
- idiom use
- lump it means endure without complaint
- sugar form
- a cube rebranded to sound rustic
- body sense
- often the first word before a doctor visit