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slumpy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈslʌmpi/

Etymology

From slump + -y.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of an economic slump.
   • Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process. 2009 March 5, Mike Albo, “If the Apple Store Sold Clothing ...”, in New York Times:
2. (informal) Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.
   • Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman. 2015, Chloe Cole, Coercion:
   • Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier. 2004, Hank Stuever, Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere, Picador, published 2004, →ISBN, page 134:
   • Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence. 2014, Brian Oliver, quoting Nelson Ottah, The Trial of Biafra's Leaders, 1980, quoted in The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 111:
3. (UK, US, dialectal) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.
   • So away goes lunch, and off goes you and the 'Sir,' a trampousin' and trapsein' over the wet grass agin […] and then back by another path that's slumpier than t'other, and twice as long […] 1843, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attaché Or Sam Slick in England, Paris: Baudry's European Library, page 219:
   • […] making a rock his easy-chair, and a pair of hunting-boots his slippers; letting his dressing-gown be a woollen shirt or an india-rubber overcoat; finding his dainty, creamy-leaved books in white birch trees, or yeasty, frothy, river-rapids, and for delicate annotations making big tracts through the slumpy alluvion of the forest[…] 1869, G. M. Hoppin, “The Adirondac Lakes”, in The Broadway, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 263:
   • The softening of the great body of snow renders the roads slumpy and full of "Thank-ye-ma'ams," so that sleighing is not altogether a blissful experience just now. 1877, John Russell Bartlett, anonymous quotee, Providence Journal, letter from Maine, date unknown, quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms, 4th edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 611:
   • […] a large extent of rushy ground, either dry or hard, or slumpy and wet, […] 1853, George Johnston, The Botany of the Eastern Borders, I., page 250:

Forms

Synonyms

queachy · poachy (easily broken through) · uliginous