Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumpy
Literary usage of Tumpy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"-Ak.] t tumpy, adj. uneven, covered with hillocks. Tun, the top of a chimney.
[Ak. adds — 'up the tun,' up the chimney. Turf, cakes for firing, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"tumpy. Uneven; baring tumps. West. TUN. (1) A tub ; a barrel. Also a verb, to
put liquor into casks or barrels. ..."
3. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"Its empty air, accompanied by those tnm-tumpy triplets of the mid-century Italian
opera-scores will allay promptly the most inconvenient congestion of ..."
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