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Timeline for Hump, Rump, Lump, Bump

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Mar 6, 2016 at 6:01 history protected user140086
Mar 5, 2016 at 23:25 answer added Land Wayland timeline score: 2
Feb 6, 2013 at 20:41 history edited Matt E. Эллен
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Jan 4, 2013 at 18:47 vote accept JAM
Jan 4, 2013 at 1:02 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/287001101964832769
Jan 4, 2013 at 0:48 answer added John Lawler timeline score: 21
Jan 4, 2013 at 0:37 comment added FumbleFingers Not to mention lump, tump, and thump (okay, so you get the swelling bruise after the thump, but it's in that general area). And mumps are "sticky-up" too.
Jan 4, 2013 at 0:34 comment added John Lawler It is definitely not isolated. This is a coherent rime. See here for quite a lot more on the subject.
Jan 4, 2013 at 0:22 comment added Mark Beadles See english.stackexchange.com/a/94599/16191 for my answer to a similar question. This is generally called "sound symbolism".
Jan 4, 2013 at 0:13 answer added Mynamite timeline score: 6
Jan 3, 2013 at 23:43 history asked JAM CC BY-SA 3.0