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Galumph

PRONUNCIATION: (guh-LUMF) http://wordsmith.org/words/galumph.mp3 MEANING: (verb), To move with a clumsy heavy tread. ETYMOLOGY: First used by Lewis Carroll in 1872 to describe the actions of the vanquisher of the Jabberwock in _Through the Looking Glass_: “He left it dead, and … Continue reading

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