Lump Lʌmp Sauce Unhurt Head Noun Bre Coal/Cheese/Wood

• a lump of coal/cheese/wood
• this sauce has lumps in it.
• one lump or two?
• he was unhurt apart from a lump on his head.

lump

1. a piece of something hard or solid, usually without a particular shape
• a lump of coal/cheese/wood
• This sauce has lumps in it.
• = sugar lump
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/sugar-lump
• One lump or two?
2. a swelling under the skin, sometimes a sign of serious illness
• He was unhurt apart from a lump on his head.
• Check your breasts for lumps every month.
3. a heavy, lazy or stupid person
• See related entries: Lazy
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/lazy/lump
• He’s a big fat lump.
4. to feel pressure in the throat because you are very angry or emotional
5. to accept bad things that happen to you without complaining
• We made mistakes but we took our lumps.

Extra Examples

• He’s developed a painful lump on his neck.
• She felt a lump in her breast.
• She’s just had a breast lump removed.
• Stir the sauce to remove any small lumps.
• Surgeons operated to remove the lump.
• Tests confirmed the lump was cancerous.
• a great lump of cheese
• a heavy lump of clay
• He put a few more lumps of coal on the fire.
• He was unhurt except for a lump on his head.
• She gave the pony a sugar lump.

Word Origin

• noun Middle English: perhaps from a Germanic base meaning ‘shapeless piece’; compare with Danish lump ‘lump’, Norwegian and Swedish dialect lump ‘block, log’, and Dutch lomp ‘rag’.