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- adverb Heavily; clumsily.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He had, of course, been a galumphingly fearless Wales rugby centre in the 30s, and when Glamorgan won the County Championship in 1948 Wisden put it down to his "dynamic leadership which brought the fervour of Welsh rugby to the cricket fields of England".
Madcap Wilf Wooller created my Glamorgan angst | Frank Keating 2011
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X Factor judge Cheryl Cole carried all before her and, if Ann Widdecombe on Strictly had to be carried by a perspiring Anton du Beke, who looked as if he might get a hernia at any minute, her efforts were so galumphingly memorable that viewers clamoured for more.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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