lumpish

Etymology

This word has two partial sources. One is Late Middle English lumprissh or lumpryssh (“of a somewhat lumpy consistency”), from lumpe (“mass of material; excrescence, swelling; mass of people, crowd; useless person”) or lumpred (“piled up or twisted into lumps”) — both possibly related to Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide; to go; to hang limply”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang limply”) — with the suffix -ish, meaning ‘of the nature of; similar to; somewhat’. The other is lump (noun and verb) plus -ish. Compare English lumber.