Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

galumph

/ɡəˈlʌmf/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: galumph
IPA: /ɡəˈlʌmf/

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To move heavily and clumsily, or with a sense of prancing and triumph.

Intransitive verb

verb

(of a seal) To move across land by undulating the body.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"He instructed the taxi to wait and galumphed happily up."
"The Wild Things are a triumph of stagecraft, and they galumph away with the show."
"Lily's heart galumphed. This wasn't the same temp she'd bribed away yesterday. Something had gone haywire. She braced herself. Myra looked at the woman, then at Lily, who was suddenly busy with her stenography."
"The big fellow finally took a long look at the thing under his chin, and the current disturbance, and galumphed away, but Claudio was still dancing from boulder to boulder, trying to keep away from the teeth of the lunging females."
"In 2024, we might occasionally raise an eyebrow at Eurovision’s galumphing attempts to keep pace with pop culture – a bit of awkward rapping here, a clumsily deployed trap beat there, […]"

Etymology

Back-formation from galumphing in Lewis Carroll's “Jabberwocky”.

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

galumphs (present, singular) galumphing (participle, present) galumphed (participle, past) galumphed (past)

Derived Forms

galumpher galumphingly

Questions

How do you pronounce galumph?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɡəˈlʌmf/.
What does galumph mean?: To move heavily and clumsily, or with a sense of prancing and triumph.
Where does galumph come from?: Back-formation from galumphing in Lewis Carroll's “Jabberwocky”.

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