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  • adjective informal suffering from mumps
  • adjective informal swelling; resembling mumps

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Examples

  • Well, "mumpy", as in the mumps, which causes a droopy swelling of the cheeks.

    Let's Wear Things SVGL 2009

  • That is a fantastic mumpy face in the first picture.

    Let's Wear Things SVGL 2009

  • We had some more to-day, including twelve with mumps, and one who insisted on coming with his mumpy friend though quite well himself!

    Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

  • "But you were very brave to hand the mumpy baboon a lemon," she said, and I think so, too, for it was just the right thing.

    Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • Then, holding his mumpy jaws in both paws and winding his red tail around his blue nose, out of the house he ran, leaving the little piggie girl safe.

    Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • And when the sour lemon juice got in the baboon's mouth and eyes, and some trickled down on his mumpy throat.

    Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • "I'll get you something to eat, and then you won't have to take me," and out into the kitchen she ran, with the mumpy baboon after her.

    Curly and Floppy Twistytail; the Funny Piggie Boys Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • For the rest, Lavender's own little eyrie was situated at the end of a long top passage, and might have been originally designed for a sanatorium and there, in solitary state, the poor mumpy poetess bewailed her fate, and besought the compassion of her companions.

    A College Girl George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • Harold and Gurth pronounced her "a ripping girl, worth a dozen of that mumpy little Susan Webster."

    Etheldreda the Ready A School Story George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • I simply can't stay all night with that deaf woman and those mumpy children! I---- "

    Across the Mesa Helen Bagg 1935

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