a. [f. LUMP sb.1 + -Y1.]
1. Full of lumps.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., 286. This is one of the best Spades I have met with to dig hard lumpy Clays.
1809–16. Coleridge, Table-t. (1884), 414. A lumpy soup full of knots of curds.
1845. G. E. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., I. 293. The blood remained perfectly fluid and slightly lumpy.
1885. Times, 30 July, 9/6. The soaked rice when subjected to steam-heat is liable to form a lumpy porridge instead of a mess in which the grains remain separate.
b. Applied to rough water when the surface is cut up by the wind into small waves.
1857. C. Gribble, in Merc. Marine Mag. (1858), V. 3. Hard gales … with a heavy lumpy sea.
1867. Morn. Star, 19 Sept., 3. At this part of the river the water was extremely ‘lumpy,’ the high wind meeting the ebb tide.
1875. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, II. VIII. iv. § 3. 664. They are capable of living through a great deal of lumpy lake or river.
1894. Times, 6 March, 7/2. The head wind and lumpy water in this reach making the work very hard.
c. Lumpy jaw: actinomycosis affecting the jaw, common in cattle.
1891–2. E. Salmon, in U.S. Rep. Bureau Anim. Indust. (title), The Treatment of Lumpy Jaw.
1895. Times, 4 March, 3/3. Should an animal be suffering from ‘lumpy jaw’ (actinomycosis), or any other evident disease, the inspector condemns it.
2. Having an outline or shape characterized by lumps or roundish protuberances which impart a heavy and clumsy appearance.
1708. Ozell, trans. Boileau’s Lutrin, 36. Leaning on one Arm his lumpy Head.
1794. U. Price, Ess. Picturesque, I. 262. [That] dead flatness of outline … which his own close lumpy plantations of trees always exhibit.
1828. Scott, Jrnl., 3 April. I have not forgiven them for … building two lumpy things like mad-houses.
1865. Geikie, Scen. & Geol. Scot., viii. 222. Schistose rocks … form large lumpy hills, with long smooth slopes.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 107. Young ones [horses] generally have a roundish, lumpy shoulder.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 577. The disorder differs from other forms of obesity in its partial and lumpy distribution.
3. slang. Intoxicated, drunk.
1810. Splendid Follies, III. 165. Doctor Lying … got cherry-merry, and came home as lumpy … as an ass.
1845. Punch, VIII. 200. For ‘boosey’ we might substitute ‘lumpy’ to suit modern parlance.
1864. in Slang Dict.
