Is "tump" a word?

[SunnySooner]

I grew up in OK, and all my life, if someone swung too high, we heard, "Watch out!! You'll tump over!!!". It was only when I moved away that people would look at me funny when I used the word. So, I began to wonder. But now, I just heard it on iCarly, my 5 year old's favorite show. That must mean it's real, right?!?!?

[soonerboomer93]

wtf is tump?

[olevetonahill]

Think its a Kids way of sayin
**** it, ya know tump it ;)

[reflector]

wtf is tump?

A small hill.

[SunnySooner]

tump=tip over, up end, bottom over top, *** over teakettle, you know...TUMP!!

Dang, do Okies not even say that anymore? Damn I'm old.

[NormanPride]

I say it... :O

[olevetonahill]

I've never heard of it till now.

[olevetonahill]

Well I be dayumed Urban Dictionary has it

. tump 53 up, 20 down

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(verb): To tip something, usually a container, over, thus spilling its contents.
I can't believe you tumped your soda on to my new carpet!
by Red Ravens Rock! Apr 9, 2003 share this
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To tip over, almost always with the word 'over'. Usually describes the action of a swingset.
Watch out! If you swing too high, the swingset will tump over.

[Turd_Ferguson]

tip+dump=tump. ywia

[salth2o]

tip+dump=tump. ywia

this^^^

[AlbqSooner]

We said tump all the time as kids. It was in the category of words that just fit; like chunk. "Hey I bet you can't chunk that rock clean across that creek."

[SunnySooner]

That settles it, tump is indeed a word and I am well-edumacated, not a backwards *** hick. ;)

[hipsterdoofus]

Never heard of it...

What about "Mung" or "krunk"?

[texaspokieokie]

I grew up in OK, and all my life, if someone swung too high, we heard, "Watch out!! You'll tump over!!!". It was only when I moved away that people would look at me funny when I used the word. So, I began to wonder. But now, I just heard it on iCarly, my 5 year old's favorite show. That must mean it's real, right?!?!?

i remember it from my childhood days. you know, like 65 yrs ago.
i'm glad to know it's really a word.

[SoonerJack]

my cousin used "tump" to refer to the act of tipping a canoe over (as on the Illinois river).

"Watch out, Jack. If we hit that log we'll tump over."

My cousin also said "cinnamum" and "aminals" for a loooong time.

[soonerchk]

That settles it, tump is indeed a word and I am well-edumacated, not a backwards *** hick. ;)

I say it too, so you may well still be a backwards *** hick.:O



And why is "fixin to" frowned upon? I suppose I could announce that "my plans for the day include...", but that seems kind of long.

[The]

Tumped is a word.

Tump, not so much.

[3rdgensooner]

supposebly

[soonerchk]

supposebly

Right up there with anyways and irregardless in my world.:mad:

[Mississippi Sooner]

The first January I lived in Mississippi I kept hearing all these old guys talking about how they were getting their ice potatoes in the ground. I didn't know what the heck they were talking about. I figured, since it was in January, maybe these were potatoes that grew well in the icy ground.

Finally, I just went ahead and asked one of them, what are you guys talking about when you say ice potatoes. He said, "aww, I guess it's really any potato that ain't a sweet potato. Guess they call 'em that because they grew so many of them in Ireland."

Oh, Irish potatoes.

[3rdgensooner]

Right up there with anyways and irregardless in my world.:mad:
Your world is moo

[TUSooner]

tip+dump=tump. ywia

There. Case closed.

[yermom]

Your world is moo

it's like a cow's opionion. it doesn't matter.

[3rdgensooner]

it's like a cow's opionion. it doesn't matter.Yes, but who axed you?

[Howzit]

I will fight anyone that says 'tump' is not a word.

And by fight I mean tickle.

[SoonerAtKU]

And why is "fixin to" frowned upon? I suppose I could announce that "my plans for the day include...", but that seems kind of long.

Because there's already a term for that. "Going to"

[Tulsa_Fireman]

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THE QUESTION IS MOOT

[batonrougesooner]

Check Words With Friends. If it plays there, it's a word. :)

[Whet]

someone needs to worsh their mouf out wif some soap! And, dont' forget to use a clean worsh rag to clean up that milk you tumped over.

[soonerchk]

Because there's already a term for that. "Going to"

Not the same. Not at all.

[SoonerAtKU]

I'm fixin' to eat.

I'm going to eat.

I'm not fixin' to see the difference.

[StoopTroup]

Tump is dumping something by accident.

[Okla-homey]

There is such a thing as a "tumpline." A tumpline is a strap attached at both ends to a backpack or other luggage and used to carry the object by placing the strap over the top of the head. This utilizes the spine rather than the shoulders as standard backpack straps do.

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab7/Okla-homey/500px-SillaCatherwood.jpg
Indians in Mexico using tumplines to secure the packs carried on their backs.

[yermom]

Tump is dumping something by accident.

i hate when that happens

[Ctina]

Thanks a lot. I've never said "tump" in my life, and then today I said it. My husband looked at me like I was a total wacko. At least he reads over here so he know where it came from.

[Penguin]

I was raised in the South, y'all, and we used "tump" all the time.

[soonerchk]

I almost tumped my coffee over this morning. I was fixin to throw a fit if I had.

[GottaHavePride]

As reflector said, tump is an English (meaning British) word for a small hill, mound, or stand of vegetation.