Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marshy; swampy; boggy; easily broken through.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characteristic of an
economic slump . - adjective UK, US, dialect Easily broken through;
boggy ;marshy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What you do have is Kenny Perry, a 48-year-old from Kentucky, a self-described nice guy and a good player; and Angel Cabrera, a former chain smoking kind of slumpy guy from Argentina.
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The drive was long, and rather tiring, as the roads were beginning to get "slumpy," and here and there would come a place where the runners scraped bare ground.
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Faith laughed, and gave little shrieks, alternately, as they rose triumphantly from deep, "slumpy" hollows, or pitched headlong into others again.
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Thanks to Oprah Winfrey, I learned a new word that she madeup to describea slumpy woman.
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Posted in HOME FILES, Uncategorized, tagged housewife blues, Oprah, self-appreciation, shlumpadinka, slumpy housewife on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in HOME FILES, Uncategorized, tagged housewife blues, Oprah, self-appreciation, shlumpadinka, slumpy housewife on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Thanks to Oprah Winfrey, I learned a new word that she madeup to describea slumpy woman.
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I am often here, in this very spot, completely comfortable with not at all caring a whit for the cute vagaries of indie hipsterdom, with its pallid skin and questionable sexual acumen and slumpy thirty-year-olds on skateboards.
Mark Morford: Forgive Me, I Do Not Like The Arcade Fire Mark Morford 2010
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Thanks to Oprah Winfrey, I learned a new word that she madeup to describea slumpy woman.
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whichbe commented on the word slumpy
Right after a nap, in the middle of the afternoon, when one is still sleepy and slightly grumpy. Sleepy + Grumpy = Slumpy. (From Addictionary)
June 18, 2008
alexz commented on the word slumpy
From the dictionary of Americanisms. http://goo.gl/LlSr1 "Slumpy Marshy swampy Jamieson Scottish Die
In New England and Canada applied to wet loose snow The word is not in the English dictionaries in any sense "
February 25, 2013