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dumpish

adj

Etymology

From dump + -ish.

  1. derived from dumpa — “to thump”
  2. inherited from dumpen
  3. suffixed as dumpish — “dump + ish”

Definitions

  1. Stupid, dull.

  2. Melancholy, sad.

    • But at last they found, she was but in a deepe study, and dumpish retracting into her selfe, exercising her minde, and preparing her voice[…].
    • VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dumpish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA