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dumpish

American  
[duhm-pish] / ˈdʌm pɪʃ /

adjective

  1. depressed; sad.


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Etymology

Origin of dumpish

First recorded in 1535–45; dump(s) + -ish 1


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For several months the two poets toured the fishy, subArctic, volcanic island, sat around in its corrugated-iron farmhouses and dumpish hotels.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Gee! but you look dumpish and dressed up," said Katy.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry

Can any body be tired, or weary, or dumpish?

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark

He is a dumpish sort of person who looks as if he needed exercise, but he has a sharp clear eye.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Fritz August Gottfried Endell

"It's nothing new, aunt Miriam,—only somehow I felt it particularly this morning,—I have been kept in the house so long by this snow I have got dumpish I suppose.—"

From Queechy by Susan Warner

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