lummox
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 6
Definition of lummox
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(informal)A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
“You've broken the plates, you great lummox!”
“As a rule, a knight is a lummux, and sometimes even a labrick, and hence open to pretty poor arguments when they come glibly from a superstition-monger, but even he could see the practical side of a thing once in a while; […]”
“I love you, Gal. You're lovable. Big lovable bloke. Loveable lump. Loveable lummox. Gal Dove, party boy. Big oaf.”
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Etymology
Unknown. First attested in 1825 in East Anglian slang. Perhaps from "dumb ox", influenced by lumbering; or from or cognate to dialectal verb lummock (“move about heavily or clumsily”), itself a word of uncertain origin.
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