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glumpish en · ADJ

Etymology

From glump + -ish.

Meanings

1. (dated, dialectal) grumpy; sullen; gloomy
   • An' it worrets me as Mr. Tom 'ull sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittin' his brow, an' a-lookin' at the fire of a night. He should be a bit livelier now — a fine young fellow like him. 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, volume 2:
   • Now, in order that such invaluable treasures of wit […] and other repositories of such glumpish, churlish, and refractory persons as aforesaid, and thereby run the risk of being lost to all chearful^([sic]) society, or of dying with their avaricious and monopolizing possessors. 1816, Timothy Broadgrin (pseudonym), The Spirit of Irish Wit, page 2:

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