lomp - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Uncertain. Perhaps from lomp (“rag”). Compare West Frisian lomp (“rude”), German Low German Lump (“bounder; cad”), German Lump (“rogue; cad”).
lomp (comparative lomper, superlative lompst)
- coarse; rude; surly; boorish; unrefined; uncouth; unsophisticated; unmannered
Zeg, lompe boer, staat/trapt eens op uw eigen tenen!
- Hey, unmannered boor, step on your own toes, will you!
- (chiefly southern) dumb
Hoe kunt ge nu zo lomp zijn niet te weten hoeveel twee plus twee is?!
- How can you be so dumb not knowing how much is two plus two?
| Declension of lomp | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | lomp | |||
| inflected | lompe | |||
| comparative | lomper | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | lomp | lomper | het lompst het lompste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | lompe | lompere | lompste |
| n. sing. | lomp | lomper | lompste | |
| plural | lompe | lompere | lompste | |
| definite | lompe | lompere | lompste | |
| partitive | lomps | lompers | — |
From Proto-Germanic *lumpa-, related to *limpaną (“to glide, go, hang loosely”), similar to German Lumpen (“tatter, rag”).
lomp f (plural lompen)