Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Informal A clumsy or stupid person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An unwieldy, clumsy, stupid fellow.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an awkward stupid person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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God knows what else they are going to dig up on this lummox.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I sent the big lummox packing, off to find himself an apartment that very night.
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Don't be a big lummox -- buy all your Christmas stuff after January 1!
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She starred in all three as the hoity-toity wife of a lummox cab driver played by the unlovely but likeable William Bendix.
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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:
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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.
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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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