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English
Etymology
From glump + -ish.
Adjective
glumpish (comparative more glumpish, superlative most glumpish)
- (dialect, dated) grumpy; sullen; gloomy
1816, Timothy Broadgrin (pseudonym), The Spirit of Irish Wit, page 2:Now, in order that such invaluable treasures of wit […] and other repositories of such glumpish, churlish, and refractory persons as aforesaid, and thereby run the risk of being lost to all chearful society, or of dying with their avaricious and monopolizing possessors.
1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, volume 2:An' it worrets me as Mr. Tom 'ull sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittin' his brow, an' a-lookin' at the fire of a night. He should be a bit livelier now — a fine young fellow like him.