Word of the Day for Sunday January 2, 2004
Somewhat Time-Lord-ish to return and ponder,
that date, that day in distant past,
Pondering over, onwards and lets say together, please,
“galumph” again, “galumph” good, one more time ,“Gal-Umph!”
Pronunciation for you at the back \guh-LUHM(P)F\,
Yes?, Bertrand! it’s an intransitive verb: with meanings:
‘To move in a clumsy manner or with a heavy tread.’
for examples consider those great writers gone before you…
“Then he climbed up the little iron ladder
that led to the wharf’s cap, placed
me once more upon his shoulders and galumphed off again.”
“Lizards patrol the . .. landscape,
and giant tortoises galumph
on the beaches.”
where did this sound come from Fitzgerald?
Galumph is probably an alteration of gallop. It was coined by…?
Lewis Carroll in the nonsense poem “Jabberwocky.”
References, look these up for homework,
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393050351/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
- http://www.nytimes.com/
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=galumph
Footnote
Galumph all the above borrowed and bled and altered and read based on…
Words Belonging to:
–Alistair MacLeod, [1]Island: The Complete Stories
–Peter M. Nichols, “Gal·pagos,” [2]New York Times, March 30, 2001
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