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dumpish, a.|ˈdʌmpɪʃ|
[f. dump n.1 + -ish.]
†1. Dull, stupid, slow-witted; inactive, inert, spiritless; destitute of sensation; abstracted, insensible to outward things; dull, uninteresting. Obs.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 28 Base and dompysshe wittes can neuer be hurte with continuall studie. 1558T. Phaer æneid vi. Q j b, Combrous Age of dompishe yeeres. 1562W. Bullein Dial. Soarnes & Chir. 41 b, A dumpische priuation of sense. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 258 She was but in a deepe study, and dumpish retracting into herselfe. c1682Hickeringill Wks. (1716) II. 3 Let such busie Censurers use their own Lumpish Dumpish grave way.
2. Sad, melancholy; dejected, ‘in the dumps’.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 182 I am dumpyshe to see thee play the drabbe. 1595Southwell Mæoniæ 23 Dolefull tunes for dumpish cares. 1627Bp. Hall Heaven upon Earth §23 It is a false slander raised on christianitie that it maketh men dumpish and melancholicke. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 17 She will..be dumpish or unneighbourly. 1779F. Burney Diary Jan., On Monday..I was wofully dumpish. 1847Emerson Eng. Traits xix. (1856) 310 In prosperity they were moody and dumpish, but in adversity they were grand.
b. Such as to put one ‘in the dumps’.
c1717Lett. fr. Miot's Jrnl. (1722) I. 89 The Day and Weather being as sad and dumpish as old Saturn himself. |