Crossword clues for galumph
galumph
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, "to prance about in a self-satisfied manner," coined by Lewis Carroll in "Jabberwocky," apparently by blending gallop and triumph. "The sense in current use may vary according to different notions of what the sound expresses" [OED]. Related: Galumphing.
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To move heavily and clumsily.
WordNet
v. move around heavily and clumsily; "the giant tortoises galumphed around in their pen"
Usage examples of "galumph".
The outriding amphicyons galumphed stoically on either side, sometimes closing in, so that she saw their evil yellow eyes or smelled the carrion reek of their bodies.
And when Brookie lets the poor thing loose, it galumphs to the mirror and backs up to see its grapy leg.
The Bede arrowed westward over Lake Erie, soon overtaking the ancient Republic Seabee amphibian that galumphed along on VFR at one thousand meters altitude.
He galumphed off in his gumboots down the drive and across the lawn towards the pinetum.
The immense bodily conflict caused acids to squirt into her monstrous digestive cavity, which would have been painful enough, but the acid set up a great galumphing uproar that caused her sides to bulge out unpredictably.
I waited until I was certain they were headed this way, then I galumphed with all speed, taking a course their steed could not follow so I could reach you before they did.
The ragged line of Cheereek galumphed through the encampment, their Clumsy Ones' weapons cracking thunder, belching fire and smoke.
The fifty warriors of the raiding party lifted their Clumsy Ones' weapons and screeched victory cries as they galumphed behind him.
He signaled and they galumphed into a thin rain of hand-blaster bolts and zapper shots.
Saddled, bridled, manes and tails streaming in their own wind, they galumphed along as if in chase.
Westcott a half block away as she galumphed her telephone pole legs down the block.
The mechanical jackalopes galumphed off in comical unison and we all rolled about laughing.
Their aim, poor to begin with, was worse from the backs of their galumphing mounts, and all their shots missed.
Angry brown scabbed most of his right side where he'd been thrown by a galumphing eeookk that stepped in a hole.
He left it dead,” they further agreed, “and with its head, he went galumphing back.