Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Marshy; swampy; boggy; easily broken through.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.

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  • adjective Characteristic of an economic slump.
  • adjective UK, US, dialect Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.

Etymologies

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slump +‎ -y

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Examples

  • What you do have is Kenny Perry, a 48-year-old from Kentucky, a self-described nice guy and a good player; and Angel Cabrera, a former chain smoking kind of slumpy guy from Argentina.

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  • The drive was long, and rather tiring, as the roads were beginning to get "slumpy," and here and there would come a place where the runners scraped bare ground.

    Our Little Canadian Cousin 1904

  • Faith laughed, and gave little shrieks, alternately, as they rose triumphantly from deep, "slumpy" hollows, or pitched headlong into others again.

    Faith Gartney's Girlhood 1865

  • Thanks to Oprah Winfrey, I learned a new word that she madeup to describea slumpy woman.

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  • I am often here, in this very spot, completely comfortable with not at all caring a whit for the cute vagaries of indie hipsterdom, with its pallid skin and questionable sexual acumen and slumpy thirty-year-olds on skateboards.

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  • Right after a nap, in the middle of the afternoon, when one is still sleepy and slightly grumpy. Sleepy + Grumpy = Slumpy. (From Addictionary)

    June 18, 2008

  • From the dictionary of Americanisms. http://goo.gl/LlSr1 "Slumpy Marshy swampy Jamieson Scottish Die

    In New England and Canada applied to wet loose snow The word is not in the English dictionaries in any sense "

    February 25, 2013