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gallumph

gallumph is the alternative form of galumph.

Meaning of galumph

Verb

galumph (third-person singular simple present galumphs, present participle galumphing, simple past and past participle galumphed)

  1. (intransitive) To move heavily and clumsily, or with a sense of prancing and triumph.
    • He instructed the taxi to wait and galumphed happily up.1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
  2. (intransitive) (of a seal) To move across land by undulating the body.

Forms of gallumph

third-person singular presentgallumphs
present participlegallumphing
past participlegallumphed
pastgallumphed

Questions about gallumph

What is gallumph the alternative form of?
Gallumph is the alternative form of galumph.

Words near gallumph in the dictionary

  1. gallstone
  2. gallstones
  3. gallu
  4. Gallucci
  5. Galluccis
  6. gallumph
  7. gallumphed
  8. gallumphing
  9. gallumphs
  10. Gallup
  11. Gallup poll

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gallumph (page history and authors); galumph (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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