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Gummidge|ˈgʌmɪdʒ|
The name of a peevish, self-pitying, and pessimistic widow in Dickens's novel ‘David Copperfield’ (1850), used to describe a person of such a nature, or their complaints. Also attrib. Hence ˈgummidge v. intr.; ˈgummidging ppl. a.; ˈgummagy, ˈGummidgey adjs.
1873A. Helps Animals & their Masters viii. 191 There is a great deal of what I call ‘Gummidge’ talked in the world, and very unreasonable talk it is. 1889A. Lang in Longman's Mag. May 111 One might do very well in the Transvaal if one did not ‘gummidge’. 1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 437 To be gummagy, to be of a snarling, scolding disposition. 1895Westm. Gaz. 14 Jan. 7/1 What good is there in merely Gummidgeing on like this? 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 20 July 9/7 (heading) A Nation of Gummidges. 1918Best Short Stories 1917 209 At twenty-seven Jo had been the dutiful, hard-working son..of a widowed and gummidging mother. 1927Sunday Express 1 May 12/3 The Gummidge chorus is never silent. 1928D. H. Lawrence Let. 9 Mar. (1962) II. 1042 It's true I've felt rather Gummidgey and ‘low’ and disheartened these last two years. |