Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A clumsy or stupid person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An unwieldy, clumsy, stupid fellow.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an awkward stupid person
Etymologies
- Origin unknown.
Examples
“God knows what else they are going to dig up on this lummox.”
“Aside from a couple of supporting characters -- Tommy was a real standout for me with his lummox-like personality and humor -- no one beyond the main characters felt particularly real to me.”
“A soldier with flaming-red hair aimed his rifle at the police station, and a big, ugly lummox pointed his handgun in the same direction.”
“I was happy to serve, but it was a struggle to make ends meet in a country with no cleaners experienced in working with ermine, so I was delighted to be invited back to Westminster to help lift that lummox Gordon out of the mire into which he and Tony had led the country in my absence.”
“I sent the big lummox packing, off to find himself an apartment that very night.”
“Don't be a big lummox -- buy all your Christmas stuff after January 1!”
“She starred in all three as the hoity-toity wife of a lummox cab driver played by the unlovely but likeable William Bendix.”
“As I mentioned, Surly have lent me a "Big Dummy" as well as a cargo bicycle to haul this drooling, blathering lummox around with as he is too stupid to walk and as I sat near it recently I watched as a gentleman, seemingly oblivious to my presence, began eyeing it with considerable interest:”
“The Obama I know sees you, the law abiding gun owner, as nothing but a low-class lummox who is easily swayed by the flash of a smile and a ration of rosy rhetoric.”
“He's intelligent, analytical, articulate, worldly; he isn't a mentally-challenged Barco-lounging lummox who robotically chants bumper-sticker slogans to rally the faithful to his cause while giving everyone else the finger.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘lummox’.
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Dean Koontz Life Expectancy
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