glumpishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

glumpish (comparative more glumpish, superlative most glumpish)

1. (方言, dated) grumpy; sullen; gloomy
   • 1816, Timothy Broadgrin (pseudonym), The Spirit of Irish Wit, page 2:

     Now, in order that such invaluable treasures of wit […] and other repositories of such glumpish, churlish, and refractory persons as aforesaid, and thereby run the risk of being lost to all chearful^[sic] society, or of dying with their avaricious and monopolizing possessors.

   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, volume 2:

     An' it worrets me as Mr. Tom 'ull sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittin' his brow, an' a-lookin' at the fire of a night. He should be a bit livelier now — a fine young fellow like him.