Meaning of galumph | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To move heavily and clumsily, or with a sense of prancing and triumph.
   intransitive
2. (of a seal) To move across land by undulating the body.
   intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“He instructed the taxi to wait and galumphed happily up.”

“The Wild Things are a triumph of stagecraft, and they galumph away with the show.”

“Lily's heart galumphed. This wasn't the same temp she'd bribed away yesterday. Something had gone haywire. She braced herself. Myra looked at the woman, then at Lily, who was suddenly busy with her stenography.”

“The big fellow finally took a long look at the thing under his chin, and the current disturbance, and galumphed away, but Claudio was still dancing from boulder to boulder, trying to keep away from the teeth of the lunging females.”

“In 2024, we might occasionally raise an eyebrow at Eurovision’s galumphing attempts to keep pace with pop culture – a bit of awkward rapping here, a clumsily deployed trap beat there, […]”

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