Meaning of undumpish | Babel Free

Definitions

To relieve from the dumps; to cause to cheer up.

nonce-word, transitive

Examples

“When the Queen was out of humour, he could undumpish her”

“True, they in the end⟳ give⟳ the droll his immortality, but they can be a terrible affliction in the meantime to those who would live⟳ by undumpishing.”

“Who, Dr. Weisblatt asked, could undumpish the Chairman of the Coal Board⟳ (apparently one of the most oppressive of the public bodies of the day), or tell⟳ him his faults effectively, if not a Coal Board⟳ Fool?”

“Will Somers could “undumpish” Henry VIII, and Armin gives an account that he says in living memory of some still at Greenwhich, of how he succeeded in making a solemn Henry first smile⟳ and then laugh⟳ enough to forget⟳ his bad mood, all with a riddle[.]”

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