mumpish

comparative more mumpish · superlative most mumpish

1. sulking, mopey

   You mumpish beefalo (you sulky old cow).

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   He had written to Doctor South and had in his pocket a telegram from him received that morning: "Sacking the mumpish fool. When will you come?"

   1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 122

comparative more mumpish · superlative most mumpish

1. colloquialSuffering from mumps (the disease).

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   I wouldn't mind being sick if I could look interesting, but mumps! The funny thing is, I haven't had time to get them from these children and must have been exposed before. […] [S]omehow I was feeling far from well, myself, and when Dr. Weston came about ten o'clock he broke the dreadful news that I was mumpish too, and sent me off to bed.

   1932, Improvement Era, volume 36, page 895