Adjective: mumpish
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more mumpish |
| Superlative | most mumpish |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like mumpish
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English mump
3. Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
4. Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *-isk
6. Old English -isΔ
7. Middle English -ish
8. English -ish
9. English mumpish
10. From mump + -ish.