lumbering
adjective
[ ˈlʌmb(ə)rɪŋ ]
• moving in a slow, heavy, awkward way.
• "Bob was a big, lumbering, gentle sort"
Similar:
clumsy,
awkward,
heavy-footed,
blundering,
bumbling,
inept,
maladroit,
uncoordinated,
ungainly,
oafish,
like a bull in a china shop,
ungraceful,
gauche,
lumpish,
cumbersome,
ponderous,
laborious,
stolid,
clodhopping,
hulking,
lubberly,
lumbering
noun
• the action of cutting and preparing forest timber for transport and sale.
• "the traditional resource industries of the nation, chiefly fishing and lumbering"
lumber
verb
• move in a slow, heavy, awkward way.
• "a truck lumbered past"
Similar:
lurch,
stumble,
shamble,
shuffle,
reel,
waddle,
trudge,
clump,
stump,
plod,
tramp,
walk heavily/clumsily,
stamp,
stomp,
thump,
thud,
bang,
sprauchle,
traik,
galumph,
Origin:
late Middle English lomere, perhaps symbolic of clumsy movement.
lumber
verb
• burden (someone) with something unwanted.
• "the banks do not want to be lumbered with a building that they cannot sell"
Similar:
burden,
saddle,
encumber,
hamper,
impose on,
load,
oppress,
trouble,
tax,
land,
dump something on someone,
• cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale.
• "the woods there got lumbered down"
Origin:
mid 16th century: perhaps from lumber1; later associated with obsolete lumber ‘pawnbroker's shop’.
lumber
verb
• casually strike up a relationship with (a prospective sexual partner).
• "he lumbered her from a pub in London"
Origin:
1960s: of unknown origin.
