English Explanatory Dictionary

Lumpkin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Butte County, California, United States.
  3. A small city, the county seat of Stewart County, Georgia, United States.
noun
  1. A clumsy, heavy, stupid, silly or blundering person.

Word forms

Lumpkin Lumpkins

Etymology

After Tony Lumpkin, an ignorant young man in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1771; first performed 1773).

Derived words

Lumpkin County
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