Meaning of dumpish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Stupid, dull.
   obsolete
2. Melancholy, sad.

Examples

“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[…].”

“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.”

“Mrs Inconſiderate, alſo replyed, ſaying, avvay vvith ſuch Fantaſtical Fools from the Tovvn, a good riddance, for my par[t], I ſay, of her. Should ſhe ſtay vvhere ſhe dvvels, and retain⟳ this her mind⟳, vvho could live⟳ quietly by her? for ſhe vvill either be dumpiſh or unneighbourly, or talk⟳ of ſuch matters as no vviſe body can abide: […]”

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