English

Verb

galumph ‎(third-person singular simple present galumphs, present participle galumphing, simple past and past participle galumphed)

1. (intransitive) To move heavily and clumsily.
   • 2008, Denise Hamilton, The Last Embrace, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781439105511), page 137

     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.

   • 2013, William Conway, Act III in Patagonia: People and Wildlife, Island Press (ISBN 9781597265898), page 186

     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.