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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Marshy; swampy; boggy; easily broken through.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Characteristic of an economic slump.
  2. adj. UK, US, dialect Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.

Etymologies

  1. slump +‎ -y (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “What you do have is Kenny Perry, a 48-year-old from Kentucky, a self-described nice guy and a good player; and Angel Cabrera, a former chain smoking kind of slumpy guy from Argentina.”

    NPR: Woods Off To Tough Start On Masters Day 3

  • “The drive was long, and rather tiring, as the roads were beginning to get "slumpy," and here and there would come a place where the runners scraped bare ground.”

    Our Little Canadian Cousin

  • “Faith laughed, and gave little shrieks, alternately, as they rose triumphantly from deep, "slumpy" hollows, or pitched headlong into others again.”

    Faith Gartney's Girlhood

  • “Thanks to Oprah Winfrey, I learned a new word that she madeup to describea slumpy woman.”

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  • “I am often here, in this very spot, completely comfortable with not at all caring a whit for the cute vagaries of indie hipsterdom, with its pallid skin and questionable sexual acumen and slumpy thirty-year-olds on skateboards.”

    The Huffington Post: Mark Morford: Forgive Me, I Do Not Like The Arcade Fire

  • “Yesterday, and every day before it, she had always been aware of a weight on top of her and she had slouched around and annoyed teachers with her slumpy shoulders.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Redleys

  • “A year ago he had trouble getting up the stairs at the end of the day; now he lopes up after dinner and stands in the bedroom yelling at us while we change from work clothes to slumpy home clothes: TAKE ME OUT.”

    Wednesday, Jan. 20 – The Bleat.

  • “Just getting out of the house and talking to adults is what I do when I am feeling kinda slumpy.”

    » Feeling Slumpy Strocel.com

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  • alexz From the dictionary of Americanisms. http://goo.gl/LlSr1 "Slumpy Marshy swampy Jamieson Scottish Die
    In New England and Canada applied to wet loose snow The word is not in the English dictionaries in any sense " Feb 24, 2013

  • whichbe Right after a nap, in the middle of the afternoon, when one is still sleepy and slightly grumpy. Sleepy + Grumpy = Slumpy. (From Addictionary) Jun 17, 2008

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