adj. (old: now colloquial).—Heavy; bulky; awkward.
1678. Four for a Penny, in Harleian Miscellany (ed. PARK), IV. 148. Their chief customers that bring the LUMPING bargains.
1712. ARBUTHNOT, The History of John Bull, ch. xx. Wilt thou purchase it, Nic.? thou shall have a LUMPING pennyworth.
1755. JOHNSON, A Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. LUMPING, large, heavy, great. A low word.
1796. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. He has got a LUMPING pennyworth; frequently said of a man who marries a fat woman.
1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i. 161. He gives what is called the LUMPING hap’orth, that is seven or eight pieces [of hot eel with the soup].
1887. Boy’s Own Paper, Xmas No., p. 3. Slick’s Welsh cow-boy (a LUMPING yokel of forty summers and as many winters).
