Luke, nothing.—North Country Cant.
Lully, a shirt.
Lully prigger, a rogue who steals wet clothes hung on lines to dry.
Lumber, to pawn or pledge. Probably from Lombard.
Lumbered, pawned; sometimes imprisoned.
Lummy, jolly, first-rate.
Lump, anything exceptionally large, “as a LUMP of a man,” “a great LUMP of a fellow,” &c.
Lump, the workhouse; also called the Pan.
Lump it, to dislike it; “if you don’t like it, you may LUMP IT;” sometimes varied to, “if you don’t like it, you may do the other thing.” Probably from the fact that, in bulk or in lump, the good has to be taken with the bad. What you don’t like must be reckoned with the LUMP. To LUMP IT is also to take off at a draught, as medicine or a dram. “He LUMPED IT down at once.”
Lump the lighter, to be transported.