What does lumpish mean in Shakespeare?

stupid, clumsy, or heavy.
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What is meaning of lumpish?

Definition of lumpish

1 : dull, sluggish. 2 obsolete : low in spirits. 3 : heavy, awkward. 4 : lumpy sense 1a.
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What does lumpish mean in modern English?

lumpish in American English

heavy, clumsy, dull, stupid, etc. Derived forms. lumpishly (ˈlumpishly)
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What is ill breeding?

Definition of ill-bred

: badly brought up or showing bad upbringing : impolite.
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What does Cockered mean?

to treat with great or excessive care. overjoyed to be parents at last, they will likely cocker that child shamelessly.
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What does common kissing mean in Shakespeare?

common-kissing: kissing all alike Cym.

Onions. Oxford.
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What does Dewberry mean in Shakespeare?

z. dewberry (n.) species of blackberry. Headword location(s)
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What is milk livered?

Definition of milk-livered

archaic. : cowardly, timorous.
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What is the meaning of dog fish?

Definition of dogfish

: any of various usually small bottom-dwelling sharks (as of the families Squalidae, Carcharhinidae, and Scyliorhinidae) that often appear in schools near shore, prey chiefly on fish and invertebrates, and are a valuable food source.
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What does Clapper clawed mean in Shakespeare?

Definition of clapperclaw

transitive verb. 1 dialectal, England : to claw with the nails. 2 dialectal, England : scold, revile.
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What does Doghearted mean in Shakespearean language?

dog-hearted: cruel Lr.

Oxford.
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What does Clay brained mean in Shakespeare?

Clay-brained. (adj) - Stupid.
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What is the Oxnard dictionary?

/ ˈɒks nɑrd / PHONETIC RESPELLING. noun. a city in SW California, NW of Los Angeles.
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What does Lumpatious mean urban dictionary?

Someone that is snobby, annoying, mean, bad, unpleasant or rude.
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Is dog fish a shark?

dogfish, (order Squaliformes), any of several small sharks making up an order of chondrichthyian fishes composed of the families Centrophoridae (gulper sharks), Dalatiidae, Echinorhinidae, Etmopteridae, Oxynotidae, Somniosidae, and Squalidae. In North America the name is also used for a freshwater fish, the bowfin.
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What is another name for dogfish?

Dogfish synonyms

A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva. A fish, the bowfin.
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What does onion eyed mean in Shakespeare?

onion-eyed. having the eyes filled with tears. pale-hearted. dispirited; cowardly; craven.
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What does dogfish mean in Shakespeare?

dogfish: name of a kind of small shark, applied opprobriously to a person 1H6 I. iv. 107. A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T.
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What does flax wench mean?

A woman who spins flax. A prostitute.
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What does hedge pig mean Shakespeare?

hedge-pig - someone who doesn't care about. anyone's feelings.
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How do you make a Shakespeare Insult?

To make an insult, pick one word from each column and string them together. For example, taking the first word in each column gives you the insult: “artless base-court apple-john.”
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What does guts griping mean in Shakespeare?

guts-griping: Troil.

“guts-griping, ruptures”; Dryden in his version has 'gut-gripings, ruptures'). A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T.
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Is funner a word yes or no?

But if you're thinking that that logic is downright silly, most dictionary establishments agree with you. And they also agree that…the answer to “is funner a word?” is yes. If you want to consider “fun,” as an adjective, a word, then “funner” is indeed a word, as is “funnest,” per normal rules of adjective formation.
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Is the word Lumpatious real?

Indeed it is! (Adult Slang) Adjective, meaning someone that is mean, snobby, annoying, bad, unpleasant, rude, and obnoxious.
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