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lump in (one's) throat

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lump 1   (lŭmp)   
n.  
  1. An irregularly shaped mass or piece.

  2. A small cube of sugar.

  3. Pathology A swelling or small palpable mass.

  4. A collection or totality; an aggregate.

  5. A person regarded as ungainly or dull-witted.

  6. lumps Informal

    1. Severe punishment or treatment, as a beating or an unsparing criticism: take one's lumps.

    2. One's just deserts; comeuppance: get one's lumps.

adj.  
  1. Formed into lumps: lump sugar.

  2. Not broken or divided into parts: a lump payment.

v.   lumped, lump·ing, lumps

v.   tr.
  1. To put together in a single group without discrimination.

  2. To move with heavy clumsiness.

  3. To make into lumps.

v.   intr.
  1. To become lumpy.

  2. To move heavily.


[Middle English lumpe, of Low German origin; akin to obsolete Dutch lompe.]
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