slumpy

English

Etymology

From slump +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslʌmpi/

Adjective

slumpy (comparative slumpier, superlative slumpiest)

1. Characteristic of an economic slump.
   • 2009 March 5, Mike Albo, “If the Apple Store Sold Clothing ...”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process.

2. (informal) Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.
   • 2004, Hank Stuever, Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere, Picador, published 2004, →ISBN, page 134:

     Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier.

   • 2014, Brian Oliver, quoting Nelson Ottah, The Trial of Biafra's Leaders, 1980, quoted in The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 111:

     Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence.

   • 2015, Chloe Cole, Coercion‎^[2]:

     Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman.

3. (UK, US, dialect) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.
   • 1843, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attaché Or Sam Slick in England, Paris: Baudry's European Library, page 219:

     So away goes lunch, and off goes you and the 'Sir,' a trampousin' and trapsein' over the wet grass agin […] and then back by another path that's slumpier than t'other, and twice as long […]

   • 1853, George Johnston, The Botany of the Eastern Borders, I., page 250:

     […] a large extent of rushy ground, either dry or hard, or slumpy and wet, […]

   • 1869, G. M. Hoppin, “The Adirondac Lakes”, in The Broadway, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 263:

     […] making a rock his easy-chair, and a pair of hunting-boots his slippers; letting his dressing-gown be a woollen shirt or an india-rubber overcoat; finding his dainty, creamy-leaved books in white birch trees, or yeasty, frothy, river-rapids, and for delicate annotations making big tracts through the slumpy alluvion of the forest […]

   • 1877, John Russell Bartlett, anonymous quotee, Providence Journal, letter from Maine, date unknown, quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms, 4th edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 611:

     The softening of the great body of snow renders the roads slumpy and full of "Thank-ye-ma'ams," so that sleighing is not altogether a blissful experience just now.

Synonyms

• (easily broken through): poachy, queachy, uliginous; see also Thesaurus:marshy