clump, noun
- Forms:
- Also clomp.
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Calque formed on Afrikaans klomp ‘lump’, ‘crowd’, ‘lot’, ‘bunch’, ‘heap’.
rare
- Note:
- In general English usage, the common English senses of clump ‘a cluster of trees’, ‘a compact mass or patch of any growing plant’ (OED), in use since the late 16th century, are rarely extended to people, animals, etc.
klompie noun1.
1871 ‘Jno’ in A.M.L. Robinson Sel. Articles from Cape Monthly Mag. (1978) 131A native attending on one of the wagons at a neighbouring outspan had been struck dead by lightning, and..a clump of sheep had shared the same fate.
1970 C. Tuckett Informant, Bloemfontein, Free StateKraal. A clomp of natives’ huts, usually many huts built in a circle.
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