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glumping

glumping is the present participle and gerund of glump.

Meaning of glump

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.

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)

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Questions about glumping

What is glumping the present participle and gerund of?
Glumping is the present participle and gerund of glump.

Words near glumping in the dictionary

  1. glumped
  2. glumpier
  3. glumpiest
  4. glumpily
  5. glumpiness
  6. glumping
  7. glumpish
  8. glumps
  9. glumpy
  10. glums
  11. Glumsø

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