Word of the DaySunday, January 02, 2005
galumph
\guh-LUHM(P)F\ , intransitive verb:1.
To move in a clumsy manner or with a heavy tread.
Quotes:
Then he climbed up the little iron ladder that led to the wharf's cap, placed me once more upon his shoulders and galumphed off again.
-- Alistair MacLeod, Island: The Complete Stories
Lizards patrol the . . . landscape, and giant tortoises galumph on the beaches.
-- Peter M. Nichols, "Galápagos", New York Times, March 30, 2001
Origin:
Galumph is probably an alteration of gallop. It was coined by Lewis Carroll in the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky."
