Meaning of mumpish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. sulking, mopey
2. Suffering from mumps (the disease).
   colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“You mumpish beefalo (you sulky old cow).”

“He had written to Doctor South and had in his pocket a telegram from him received that morning: "Sacking the mumpish fool. When will you come?"”

“I wouldn't mind being sick if I could look interesting, but mumps! The funny thing is, I haven't had time to get them from these children and must have been exposed before. […] [S]omehow I was feeling far from well, myself, and when Dr. Weston came about ten o'clock he broke the dreadful news that I was mumpish too, and sent me off to bed.”

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