tumpa n.
(W.I. Rasta) a stump; usu. attrib. or descriptive in compounds.
‘Old Lady & the Jar’ in Jam. Song and Story 137: A old lady have two sons, one name Dory Dun an’ one name Tumpa Toe. [...] Notes. Tumpa, stump. A man who has lost his arm is called a tumpa-hand man. | ||
Jam. Dialect Poems 51: Fan tumpa-toe bwoy bring one hundred / Pouns from ’Merica. | ‘Merry Christmas’ in||
Anancy Stories and Dialect Verse 72: It you go a tump-a-foot dance, you must dance tump-a-foot. Tump-a-foot – wooden peg-leg. (i.e. Dance in a tump-a-foot way so as not to hurt their feelings). |
In phrases
(W.I. Rasta) a one-footed man.
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