Galumph
[/ɡəˈləmf/]
Part of speech: verb
1.
To move around in a clumsy fashion
2.
Walk in a noisy way that draws attention
Examples of Galumph in a sentence
"He galumphed from room to room while everyone was trying to sleep."
"If people give you dirty looks when you walk into the library, you may be galumphing without realizing it."
About Galumph
We have Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" to thank for galumph, an onomatopoeic verb that means exactly what it sounds like. If you've ever gotten from point a to point b more noisily than you needed to, you've galumphed without even realizing it.
Did you Know?
Galumph is considered a portmanteau of gallop and triumph that Lewis Carroll coined in "Jabberwocky." The word was as playful as it was useful, and so it stuck.
