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Etymology
From dump + -ish.
Adjective
dumpish (comparative more dumpish, superlative most dumpish)
- (obsolete) Stupid, dull.
- Melancholy, sad.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC: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 […].
1672, Thomas Shadwell, The Miser: A Comedy, , London: Thomas Collins and John Ford, , →OCLC, Act I, page 1: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.
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