It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 2nd.

Today's word is Galumpf, spelled G-A-L-U-M-P-H.

Galumph is a verb. To Golmph is to move in a loud and clumsy way. Here's the word used. In a sentence

from NPR by Glenn Weldon. Dragons, dragons roaring, dragons squawking, dragons sizing each other up,

dragons galumphing over the sand so awkwardly it reminds you that dragons are creatures of the air not the earth

bump thump thud there's no doubt about it when someone or something galumps onto the scene ears take notice

galumpf first lumbered onto the english scene in eighteen seventy two when lewis Lewis Carroll used the word to describe the actions of the vanquisher of the Jabberwock in Through the Looking Glass.

With these words, he left it dead, and with its head he went galumphing back.

Carol likely constructed the word by splicing the words gallop and triumphant, as Galumph did in its earliest uses, convey a sense of exultant bounding.

Other 19th century writers must have liked the sound of Galumph because they began plying it in their own prose, and it has been clumping around our language ever

since. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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