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galumphingly

galumphingly adverb: heavily; clumsily.

Adverb

galumphingly (comparative more galumphingly, superlative most galumphingly)

  1. Heavily; clumsily.
    • Other “Mozart Dances” motifs certainly move, as when a dancer, standing with feet together, briskly bobs up to half-toe and down in time to a figure in the music; or a sideways jump, engaging in its slightly galumphingly stiff arrival and the way the upper body swings in the opposite direction from...2007 August 17, Alastair Macaulay, “Morris Meets Amadeus: Odd, Elective Affinities”, in New York Times

Forms of galumphingly

comparativemore galumphingly
superlativemost galumphingly

Origin of galumphingly

From galumphing + -ly.

Questions about galumphingly

What does galumphingly mean?
Galumphingly means heavily; clumsily.
What part of speech is galumphingly?
Galumphingly is an adverb.

Words near galumphingly in the dictionary

  1. galumph
  2. galumphed
  3. galumpher
  4. galumphers
  5. galumphing
  6. galumphingly
  7. galumphs
  8. galumpki
  9. galumpkis
  10. galumptious
  11. galunisertib

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