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Dumpish
DUMPISH
,Adj.
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dumpish
dumpish
English
Adjective
dumpish (comparative more dumpish, superlative most dumpish)
- (obsolete) Stupid, dull.
- Sad, melancholy.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- But at last they found, she was but in a deepe study, and dumpish retracting into her selfe, exercising her minde, and preparing her voice […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12: