dumpish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dumpish (comparative more dumpish, superlative most dumpish)
- (obsolete) Stupid, dull.
- Melancholy, sad.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- 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 […].
- 1672, Thomas Shadwell, The Miser: A Comedy, […], London: […] Thomas Collins and John Ford, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
- VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning.