tumphy Sc.
(ˈtʌmfɪ)
Also tumfie.
[Cf. sumph, in same sense.]
a. A stupid person, a blockhead. b. Coal-mining. (See quot. 1886.)
| 1795 A. Wilson The Spouter in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 331 The puir unfort'nate tumphy. 1823 Galt Entail III. iv. 41 Neither you nor that unreverent and misleart tumphy your wife. 1886 J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 69 Tumphy, coaly fire-clay. 1890 J. Service Thir Notandums i. 3, I hear that tumfie o' a lassock nicherin' an' lauchin' in the kitchen. |