hummocksing

Updated: May 9, 2025

'Coombe-bottom' is a curious duplication either word being used to indicate a narrow valley or hollow. An unfortunate child who lived there had never been so well since the stone roller went over his head. She had a lover, but he was 'a gurt hummocksing noon-naw, so she was not sorry to leave him. The phrase might be translated, 'great loose-jointed idiot.

Richard Jefferies - Round About a Great Estate