galumphing

1. To move or run clumsily or heavily.
1. "He went galumphing back." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. The little kid went galumphing to his mother to show her something.
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Hopping from an 'all-fours' position, returning to same. Sort of a cross between jumping and crabwalking.
Vort and Mildred went galumphing down to the yackity swingset.
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A person who is know to move in a slow clumsy manner. Usually of the species revoltus biggus bitchus

One who has no socially redeeming value and should not be allowed to reproduce with members of the human race.

A species that resides on orange sectional couches in the midwest and is know to cohabitate with any one who can put up with their malodorous ass!
Man that (person) is a black haired galumph! Their dad should have jerked off in the sink!

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Galumphing

A term coined by Lewis Carroll in the poem "Jabberwocky" which was on the novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" published in 1872.

It's a combination of the words 'gallop' and 'triumphant'
"He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back"
(Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky" from "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
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1. <verb> to move with an ungainly gait; controlled falling
2. -ed <verb past tense> to seat tables in a rural fine dining restaurant
3. -ing <verb> same as to galumph, but quicker and for longer distances
She picked up the menus and, with a smile, galumphed off to the dining room.
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to move ungracefully, to move clumsiy
Don't Galumph around the computer room.
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The unofficial term for the way seals move when on land, where they flop up and down while contracting and expanding their bodies to gain distance.

This term is believed to be a portmanteau of the words "gallop" and "triumphant." It was coined in the 1871 poem titled "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, which is featured as part of his famous novel "Through the Looking-Glass."
They galumphed up the shore.
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