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glump

glump verb: to be glum; to sulk.

Verb (1)

glump (third-person singular simple present glumps, present participle glumping, simple past and past participle glumped)

  1. (England, Southern, archaic, colloquial, intransitive) To be glum; to sulk.

Noun

glump (plural glumps)

  1. A globular clump.

Verb (2)

glump (third-person singular simple present glumps, present participle glumping, simple past and past participle glumped)

  1. To have an affinity for clumping into a glob.
    • “There's some ionic residue on this lamp. Glumpus was here for sure.” “Glumpus?” “I decided to give the nanites a name, since they glump so much.” “Aw, cute.”2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (5:09 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero)

Forms of glump

Verb
third-person singular presentglumps
present participleglumping
past participleglumped
pastglumped
Noun
pluralglumps

Origin of glump

See glum.

Blend of glom or glob + clump.

Words formed from glump

Questions about glump

What does glump mean?
Glump means to be glum; to sulk.
What part of speech is glump?
Glump can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of glump?
The past tense of glump is glumped.

Words near glump in the dictionary

  1. glummy
  2. glumness
  3. glumnesses
  4. glumose
  5. glumous
  6. glump
  7. glumped
  8. glumpier
  9. glumpiest
  10. glumpily
  11. glumpiness

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