lumpish

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Your bodies are earthly and lumpish, and the way is all upward to the holy hill.

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  1. adjective Stupid or dull.
  2. adjective Clumsy or cumbersome.

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  • A wall of serpents and taller shapes like giants, lumpish, in what might be suits or the strangeness of their own bodies. —  Port Eternity
  • It is toad-like in form but more lumpish, with a bigger head; it is as big as a man's fist, of a vivid green with black symmetrical markings on its back, and primrose-yellow beneath. —  Far Away And Long Ago
  • Beside him stands the short, lumpish, wide-eyed figure of Busta, that faithful son of Ham who assists the Shade and drives him about Central City in his yellow cab. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 05 - May 2002
  • At the far end of the corridor a lumpish old man with stringy gray hair falling to his shoulders was wielding a mop, feebly pushing a mound of trash into the shadowy space beneath a stairwell. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 03 - March 2001
  • She's a lumpish, angry, red-headed girlùlives above that store on Woodruff that sells art supplies, and works at the counter there sometimes. —  Emma Bull - Finder
 

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  1. Formerly also lompish; from Middle Dutch lumpisch; from lump + -ish.
 

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/ˈləmpɪʃ/
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