lump

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lump1

▶noun

• 1 a compact mass, especially one without a definite or regular shape.

  ■ a swelling under the skin.

• 2 informal a heavy, ungainly, or slow-witted person.

• 3 (the lump) Brit. informal casual employment in the building trade.

▶verb

• 1 (often lump things together) put in an indiscriminate mass or group.

• 2 Brit. carry (a heavy load) somewhere with difficulty.

– phrases
a lump in the throat a feeling of tightness in the throat caused by strong emotion.
take (or get) one's lumps informal, chiefly N. Amer. be attacked, punished, or defeated.

– derivatives
lumper noun.

– origin ME: perh. from a Gmc base meaning ‘shapeless piece’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lump2

▶verb (lump it) informal accept or tolerate something whether one likes it or not.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘look sulky’): symbolic of displeasure; cf. words such as dump and grump.