▪ I. glump, n. dial.
(glʌmp)
[f. glump v.]
a. A sulky person. b. pl. (See quots.)
| a. 1804 W. Tarras Poems 131 A peevish girnin glump. 1825 Jamieson, Glump, Glumph, a sour or morose person. |
| b. 1825 Jamieson s.v., In the glumps, in a gloomy state, out of humour. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Glumps, sulks. ‘Down in the glumps’, sulky, ‘glumpy’. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Glumps, the sulks. |
▪ II. glump, v. dial.
(glʌmp)
[Of obscure formation; cf. glum, glop, dump, grumpy, etc.]
intr. To sulk, be glum or sullen. Also ˈglumping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| c 1746 Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 39 Ya gurt chounting, grumbling, glumping..Trash. Wilmot. Don't tell me o' glumping. 1802 R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball. 37 Neist time we met, he glump'd and gloom'd, And turn'd his head anither way. 1804 W. Tarras Poems 52* Glumpin wi' a sour disdain..She wi' a youl began to mourn. 1876 Whitby Gloss., s.v., ‘Pray thee, what's thou glumping at.’ |