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Meanings of lump in English
Synonyms
Examples for "goon"
Examples for "goon"
1
So why on Earth would that corporate goon have said five years?
2
We play with the cards and drink goon.Night-life is not so good.
3
RELATED: Australia's chaotic border rules explained South Australians invented the goon bag.
4
Next to me, Ralph got a similar treatment from Alex the goon.
5
You underestimated me when you sent the goon squad out last night.
1
A vast improvement over the last clod the local constabulary sent out.
2
Then she heard a voice from the other side of the clod.
3
Bird, beast and insensate clod all felt the challenge of the season.
4
A clod was loosened somewhere above them and crashed upon the wreckage.
5
Break me, O Lord, even as the ploughshare breaks the reluctant clod.
1
Besides, it pleased him to be able to snub that lout, Partridge.
2
Call him over, and the young farmer stepped nearer to the lout.
3
The stolid country lout of a sentry views all new-comers with suspicion.
4
She was worried lout paying for the gardener's funeral, of all things.
5
He is a lout, with great eyes staring, and a red nose.
1
This great oaf of a bear grinning at a time like this?
2
You need to learn how to accept someone's gratitude, you big oaf.
3
And the oaf stood before him undisturbedly opening up the subject himself.
4
Some oaf in a terminal staff suit uniform, officious smile in place.
5
The man was a foul-smelling oaf and as strong as a bear.
1
Where I come from the word gawk means to stare, to gape.
2
Citizens of London stopped to gawk, but neither Michael nor Chesna cared.
3
The standard incorporates features that originated in both new awk and gawk.
4
Caroline and her friends continued to gawk at him, all looking moon-eyed.
5
Believers who are blind now will gawk at the New Earth's wonders.
1
Every lubber knows that a ship is launched before she is rigged.
2
Fell sick in the Bay o' Biscay, like any land-lubber, didn't he?
3
The mate now complimented me by exclaiming, 'Why, look at the lubber!'
4
Exasperated at this sarcasm, he replied, with great vehemence, You lie, lubber!
5
You are no land-lubber, and you will run me over in the morning.
1
Egwene, as you may have guessed, this disgracefully unclothed lummox is my brother.
2
He wouldn't trust dat big lummox Koku wif anyt'ing laik dis.
3
The great lummox then crudely upends the Frenchman and is given a card for his trouble.
4
Nina finds herself thinking that finally Polina has found someone who isn't quite such a lummox.
5
Doan make sich a racket, yo' big lummox!
1
Casey was no statesman: he looked like an unmade bed, mumbled unintelligibly, and ate like a stumblebum.
2
Tronstad could work that sort of magic with women, but I was a stumblebum when it came to the opposite sex.
Usage of lump in English
1
For the lump in the throat and the tear in the eye.
2
Both the lump in the throat and the tear in the eye.
3
To the lump in the throat and the tear in the eye.
4
In Asakawa's case, however, the beginning of a lump had been observed.
5
At a tear in the throat and a lump in the eye.
6
The lump in the throat of the boy hurt more and more.
7
He said the department wanted to look into some lump sum payments.
8
In this context, large lump-sum transfers are unlikely to do much good.
9
Officials said that is the third-largest lump sum payment in Powerball history.
10
A lump of clear ice coasted past, as broad as his hand.
11
Mrs Hedge said she noticed the lump in her breast while moisturising.
12
Photograph: Getty Images Q: When should I make a lump sum contribution?
13
Demonstrators often lump the two buildings together as targets for anti-globalisation protests.
14
That is the mechanism in the lump; but what of the artistry?
15
There was a big lump in my throat; I could scarcely speak.
16
Once it was a lump of common clay lying in the darkness.
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Lump through the time
Lump across language varieties
Australia
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Ireland
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