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Definition of Slumpy
1. a. Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.
Definition of Slumpy
1. Adjective. Characteristic of an economic slump. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slumpy
1. marshy [adj SLUMPIER, SLUMPIEST] - See also: marshy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slumpy
Literary usage of Slumpy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Camp Life in Florida: A Handbook for Sportsmen and Settlers by Charles Hallock (1875)
"... walkah no slumpy, slumpy, no sticky, icky in the mud ; that's what I mean."
Tiger—" Haigh !" Jim—" Oh, you old blackleg ; you consarned old manatee ! ..."
2. T leaves: a collection of pieces written for public reading by Edward Francis Turner (1882)
"... and slumpy, of Lombard Street, to Mary Seaford, only daughter of the late
Captain Seaford. No cards. Friends will please accept this melancholy ..."
3. The Century by Bim Sherman (1885)
"He knowed jest how things wuz With country folks, I see ; — Dern slumpy poetry
Unless a feller does. Well said —I do declare! The "old folks," "ringlets," ..."
4. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1853)
"We call it the " slumpy" advertisement, as it always opens with a word which is
something of that sound, but we are very savage when we see it—perhaps ..."
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