mumpish
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 7
Definition of mumpish
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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sulking, mopey
“You mumpish beefalo (you sulky old cow).”
“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?"”
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adj
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sulking, mopey
“You mumpish beefalo (you sulky old cow).”
“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?"”
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(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.”
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Etymology
From mump + -ish.
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