Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘mumpish’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary

Mumpish

Adjective (informal)

Definition: Sullen; sulky

Examples:

• Bring on the Wodehouse, I say, that sovereign remedy for any mumpish disharmony of mood.

• The piece on the sonnets has a lovely description of a sonnet’s action, but descends into mumpish fact and opinion, like lecture notes put into a compactor.

• I’ve even learned to look past her attempts to create an unwelcome climate for those of us who are striving to take steps against the whole mumpish brotherhood of fatuous nincompoops.

Published in Dawn, Young World, July 23rd, 2016