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mumpish

mumpish adjective: sulking, mopey.

Adjective (1)

mumpish (comparative more mumpish, superlative most mumpish)

  1. sulking, mopey
    • You mumpish beefalo (you sulky old cow).
    • He had written to Doctor South and had in his pocket a telegram from him received that morning: "Sacking the mumpish fool. When will you come?"1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 122

Adjective (2)

mumpish (comparative more mumpish, superlative most mumpish)

  1. (colloquial) Suffering from mumps (the disease).
    • I wouldn't mind being sick if I could look interesting, but mumps! The funny thing is, I haven't had time to get them from these children and must have been exposed before. […] [S]omehow I was feeling far from well, myself, and when Dr. Weston came about ten o'clock he broke the dreadful news that...1932, Improvement Era, volume 36, page 895

mumpish meaning in Tamil

mumpish in Tamil

சிடுமூஞ்சித்தனம்

Forms of mumpish

comparativemore mumpish
superlativemost mumpish

Origin of mumpish

From mump + -ish.

From mumps + -ish.

Words formed from mumpish

Questions about mumpish

What does mumpish mean?
Mumpish means sulking, mopey.
What is mumpish in Tamil?
Mumpish in Tamil is சிடுமூஞ்சித்தனம். See Mumpish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mumpish?
Mumpish is an adjective.

Words near mumpish in the dictionary

  1. mumpery
  2. Mumphrey
  3. Mumphreys
  4. mumping
  5. Mumping Day
  6. mumpish
  7. mumpishly
  8. mumpishness
  9. Mumpower
  10. Mumpowers
  11. mumpreneur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mumpish (page history and authors); mumpish (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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