to get glumpy
- phrasal verb
- UK
:
sentirse triste
- Sometimes I get glumpy during the winter months when there is little sunlight.
Examples
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When it rains for days, I tend to get glumpy and lose my motivation.
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She always gets glumpy when her favorite show is canceled.
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When things get glumpy, you just hold it up to the light.
Synonyms
15
3.0
Be sad or unhappy
To feel sad and low for a while
To be a little sad and tired
To become very sad and upset
Antonyms
How Sad
Surface Forms
Morphology
get + glumpy
This is a straightforward 'get + adjective' inchoative/compositional pattern where 'get' = 'become' and the adjective 'glumpy' (sullen/gloomy) supplies the state; if a learner knows both constituents the overall meaning is directly derivable. Although 'glumpy' is informal/rare and may be unfamiliar in some varieties, the grammatical composition makes the expression transparent.
Etymology
Get glumpy may come from an old word glump, which described someone sitting quietly like a small, unhappy lump. One popular story says that image — a person becoming a sad lump — is why get glumpy means 'become sad or moody'.