Lexicographical Neighbors of Glumpish
Literary usage of Glumpish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"Then to Hyde-Park I strolled away, Rather glumpish—rather glumpish jI there a
wondrous sight did see ; But, says I, my friends, 'twixt you and me, I think, ..."
2. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
"... me as Mr. Tom 'ull sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittin' his brow, an' a
lookin' at the fire of a night. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1861)
"... picture of the solitary lad, " as close as an iron biler," who "sits by himself
so glumpish, a- " knittin' his brow, an' a-lookin' at the ..."
4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"glumpish (popular), sulky. Glutton (pugilistic), a hard fighter, one who never
seems to have had enough fighting. Go (general), impetus, energy, spirit, ..."
5. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"glumpish, of a stubborn, sulky temper. Go, a GO of gin, a quartern of that liquor.
(This word, as applied to a measure of liquor, is stated to have arisen ..."
6. Nollekens and his times: A Life of that Celebrated Sculptor and Memoirs of by John Thomas Smith (1829)
"Mr. Nollekens, who had just before been summoned to dinner, upon his return,
observed to my Father, that Richardson "looked glumpish." ''Ah! ..."
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