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glumpy, a.|ˈglʌmpɪ|
[f. as prec. + -y1. Cf. grumpy.]
Glum, sullen, sulky.
1780F. Burney Diary June, I began to be monstrous glumpy upon this last speech, which indeed was impertinent enough. 1800A. Carlyle Autobiog. 347 Armstrong was naturally glumpy. 1853Miss Sewell Experience Life xix. 189 You are not used, Sally, to look glumpy because your head aches. 1881E. J. Worboise Sissie xlvii, Mr. Brooke was certainly glumpy, and inclined to snap and snarl at everything his wife presumed to say.
Hence ˈglumpily adv.
1864M. Eyre Lady's Walks in S. France v. (1865) 64, ‘I knew that before’, said I, rather glumpily. 1884Punch 19 July 35/1 ‘'Ave told you afore’, he said, glumpily, to Mr. T. |