galumpher
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]galumpher (plural galumphers)
- Someone who galumphs
- 1975, Marshall Smelser, The Life that Ruth Built: A Biography, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 113:
- Hooper's dangerous galumpher, Babe Ruth, turns out to have been the leading defensive outfielder of the American League in 1919 with a fielding average of . 992. ( His fielding as a pitcher included two more errors and reduced his fielding ...
- 2011, Natasha Solomons, The House at Tyneford: A Novel, GoodReads:
- It's uncanny.” I shrugged. “Mr. Wrexham usually complains I'm a galumpher.” He gave a tight smile and sat down in his battered chair, pouring the pink gin into a potted plant beside the window and helping himself to whisky from the decanter.