slumpy

English edit

Etymology edit

slump +‎ -y

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈslʌmpi/

Adjective edit

slumpy (comparative slumpier, superlative slumpiest)

Characteristic of an economic slump.
- 2009 March 5, Mike Albo, “If the Apple Store Sold Clothing ...”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process.
(informal) Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.
- 2004, Hank Stuever, Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere, Picador, published 2004, →ISBN, page 134:
  Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier.
- 2014, Brian Oliver, quoting Nelson Ottah, The Trial of Biafra's Leaders, 1980, quoted in The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 111:
  Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence.
- 2015, Chloe Cole, Coercion‎^[2]:
  Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman.
(UK, US, dialect) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.
- 1843, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attaché Or Sam Slick in England, Paris: Baudry's European Library, page 219:
  So away goes lunch, and off goes you and the 'Sir,' a trampousin' and trapsein' over the wet grass agin […] and then back by another path that's slumpier than t'other, and twice as long […]
- 1869, G. M. Hoppin, “The Adirondac Lakes”, in The Broadway, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 263:
  […] making a rock his easy-chair, and a pair of hunting-boots his slippers; letting his dressing-gown be a woollen shirt or an india-rubber overcoat; finding his dainty, creamy-leaved books in white birch trees, or yeasty, frothy, river-rapids, and for delicate annotations making big tracts through the slumpy alluvion of the forest […]
- 1877, John Russell Bartlett, anonymous quotee, Providence Journal, letter from Maine, date unknown, quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms, 4th edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 611:
  The softening of the great body of snow renders the roads slumpy and full of "Thank-ye-ma'ams," so that sleighing is not altogether a blissful experience just now.

Synonyms edit

(easily broken through): poachy, queachy, uliginous; see also Thesaurus:marshy