Definitions for galumphgəˈlʌmf

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ga•lumphgəˈlʌmf(v.i.)

  1. to move along heavily and clumsily.

Origin of galumph:

1872; perh. b. gallop and triumph

Princeton's WordNet

  1. galumph(verb)

    move around heavily and clumsily

    "the giant tortoises galumphed around in their pen"

Wiktionary

  1. galumph(Verb)

    To move heavily and clumsily.

  2. Origin: in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, where the meaning was different.


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