undumpish
undumpish verb: to relieve from the dumps; to cause to cheer up.
Verb
undumpish (third-person singular simple present undumpishes, present participle undumpishing, simple past and past participle undumpished)
- To relieve from the dumps; to cause to cheer up.
- When the Queen was out of humour, he could undumpish hera. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC
- True, they in the end give the droll his immortality, but they can be a terrible affliction in the meantime to those who would live by undumpishing.1942–3, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, A Word in Your Ear; And, Just Another Word, published 1963, page 63
Forms of undumpish
| third-person singular present | undumpishes |
|---|---|
| present participle | undumpishing |
| past participle | undumpished |
| past | undumpished |
Origin of undumpish
From un- + dumpish.
Questions about undumpish
- What does undumpish mean?
- Undumpish means to relieve from the dumps; to cause to cheer up.
- What part of speech is undumpish?
- Undumpish is a verb.
- What is the past tense of undumpish?
- The past tense of undumpish is undumpished.
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