Lexicographical Neighbors of Sumphish
Literary usage of Sumphish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"The state or character of being sumphish. Mrs. Gaukelt, Life of Charlotte Bronte,
II. 131. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... too sweeping an assertion, written in our life and times—by either gentleman
or lady in whose idiosyncrasy there was not something decidedly sumphish. ..."
3. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"That's sumphish. North. James, I shall certainly put you into Parliament next
dissolution. Shepherd. But I'll no gang. For although I'm complete maister o' ..."
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