Word of the Day: Galumph

Word of the Day:

galumph \guh-LUMF\ verb (A Lewis Carroll word--neat
: to move with a clumsy heavy tread

Example sentence:
"Julia was just then galumphing down the stairs with her overstuffed suitcase." (Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn)

Did you know?
Bump, thump, thud. There's no doubt about it, when someone or something galumphs onto the scene, ears take notice. "Galumph" first lumbered onto the English scene in 1872 when Lewis Carroll used the word to describe the actions of the vanquisher of the Jabberwock in Through the Looking Glass: "He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back." Etymologists suspect Carroll created "galumph" by altering the word "gallop," perhaps throwing in a pinch of "triumphant" for good measure (in its earliest uses, "galumph" did convey a sense of exultant bounding). Other 19th-century writers must have liked the sound of "galumph," because they began plying it in their own prose and it has been clumping around our language ever since.
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My sentence:

After sitting in the movie theatre glued to my chair for three hours, I felt as if I gallumphed whilst first making my way out.

Comments

[Cyn]

Very creative, Rose!

[Rose]

I like the fact that you're posting the definition of the word and it's origin; that way people don't have to look it up if they miss a day or two...

[Rose]

I galumphed through the kitchen while relatives stood idly by, spreading masa onto their corn husks with an air of quiet resignation. (It was tamale season.)