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So, when something gets knocked over, do you use the term 'Tump' to describe it?

"Be careful! You might tump that glass over."

I used the term in a conversation with my secretary once and she had no idea what i was talking about. She was from Wisconsin

Sometimes. I've use it, but it's not a given.

Never, ever heard that "word" before this thread.

If you aren't careful with a wheelbarrow it can tump over.

Me, no, I was born in Iowa.
The wife, yes, she is Texas born!

RoyGBiv wrote:Never, ever heard that "word" before this thread.

25 years in Texas plus a few overseas and that's a new one to me.

...tump has been a word since the late 1500s...it's even in the Scrabble player's dictionary...the meaning used here is distinctively Southern...and has been used since at least 1964...amazed that some haven't heard it...

Tump.... consider y'allselves edjucated.

...(pssst...the word is edjumicated...yer showin' yer iggernance...donchaknow nuttin?)
...Americans have had more fun mangling and murdering the English language than any other people I know...and it's not hard...few languages use one word to mean a dozen different things...

Carry-a-Kimber wrote:Tump.... consider y'allselves edjucated.

Well, I'll be..... You could tump me over with a feather.

[BTW.. spellchecker doesn't like it.. ]

Carry-a-Kimber wrote:Tump.... consider y'allselves edjucated.

Interesting. So, a grassy knoll in Dallas might also be called a tump.

...you have such an intriguing way of using the word...we could be all night on that one!!!

We used it all the time growing up in SE Texas.