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say it: LUHM-pur
lumper is a noun meaning "a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port". It is pronounced /ˈlʌmpɚ/ — LUHM-pur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lumper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.