lumme

From Lor' lumme, a corruption of Lord love me. Compare gimme.

lumme

1. (UK, dated) Expressing surprise.
   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 2, in Bulldog Drummond:

     In a spasm of uncontrollable excitement James sucked his teeth. "Lumme, it wouldn't 'alf go on the movies, would it?" he remarked. "Better than them Red Indians and things."

• lummy

lumme

1. illative singular of lumi

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Lumpeet

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From Proto-Finnic *lumbëh (compare Karelian lummeh and Võro lymmuleht'), possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic *lugmis (compare Lithuanian lugmiai).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumːeˣ/, [ˈlumːe̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -umːe
• Hyphenation^(key): lum‧me

lumme

1. water lily (a flower of the genus Nymphaea)

• vesililja

• “lumme”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03