lumpering

Updated: May 16, 2025

I called, you know, but you were out; and upon my word it is such a climb after dark that I have been waiting till the days are longer before lumpering up again. I am glad you didn't wait, however." Though well-trained and even proficient masters, they occasionally used a dialect-word of their boyhood to each other in private.

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure