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mumpish en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

Etymology tree English mump Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English mumpish From mump + -ish.

Meanings

1. sulking, mopey
   • He had written to Doctor South and had in his pocket a telegram from him received that morning: "Sacking the mumpish fool. When will you come?" 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 122:
   • You mumpish beefalo (you sulky old cow).

Forms

Deriveds

mumpishness · mumpishly

Translations (3)

ru пода́вленный (sulking) · ru мра́чный (sulking) · ru угрю́мый (sulking)

mumpish en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

Etymology tree English mumps Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English mumpish From mumps + -ish.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) Suffering from mumps (the disease).
   • I wouldn't mind being sick if I could look interesting, but mumps! The funny thing is, I haven't had time to get them from these children and must have been exposed before. […] [S]omehow I was feeling far from well, myself, and when Dr. Weston came about ten o'clock he broke the dreadful news that I was mumpish too, and sent me off to bed. 1932, Improvement Era, volume 36, page 895:

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