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undumpish

verb

Etymology

From un- + dumpish.

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

Definitions

  1. To relieve from the dumps

    To relieve from the dumps; to cause to cheer up.

    • When the Queen was out of humour, he could undumpish her
    • True, they in the end give the droll his immortality, but they can be a terrible affliction in the meantime to those who would live by undumpishing.
    • Who, Dr. Weisblatt asked, could undumpish the Chairman of the Coal Board (apparently one of the most oppressive of the public bodies of the day), or tell him his faults effectively, if not a Coal Board Fool?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for undumpish. 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