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Webster 1913 Edition
Slumpy
Slump′y
,Adj.
Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.
[Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
Bartlett.
Definition 2024
slumpy
slumpy
English
Adjective
slumpy (comparative slumpier, superlative slumpiest)
- Characteristic of an economic slump.
- (informal) Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.
- 1980, Nelson Ottah, The Trial of Biafra's Leaders, quoted in Brian Oliver, The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals, Bloomsbury (2014), ISBN 9781472907325, page 111:
- Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence.
- 2004, Hank Stuever, Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere, Picador (2004), ISBN 9780312424886, page 134:
- Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier.
- 2015, Chloe Cole, Coercion, unnumbered page:
- Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman.
- 1980, Nelson Ottah, The Trial of Biafra's Leaders, quoted in Brian Oliver, The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals, Bloomsbury (2014), ISBN 9781472907325, page 111:
- (Britain, US, dialect) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)