Word for the day galumph

[Josiah]

galumph
[guh-luhmf]


verb (used without object)
1. to move along heavily and clumsily.

Etymology: Back-formation from galumphing in Lewis Carroll's 1872 nonsense poem Jabberwocky, where the meaning was different.

 

[Warrigal]

A favourite poem of my childhood,

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

Full poem here: http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html

 

[Josiah]

Yes, me too. I memorized it as a child
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[oakapple]

Me too!I especially like the bit about galumphing, and also the burbled bit.

 

[Ina]

I've never heard that poem, but I believe I'm galumphing more and more each day. :wave:

 

[hollydolly]

Jabberwocky...One of the first poems I ever learned off by heart as a child ..

 

[Warrigal]

I still remember it.
My girlfriend and I used to have Jabberwocky races to see who could recite it fastest.
We were both ten years old.