Posted by John Nichols on March 12, 2004 at 15:30:26 from 165.91.196.181 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: Nothing whatsover to do with Ransome,except perhaps, a WHAT? posted by Peter H on March 05, 2004 at 21:48:39:
XWIN:
Ed would understand I am sure.
Dick would have had a solution in a flash (no pun intended on the boat name.)
As it is now it has started to work two weeks after I finished the paper. Again I am sure Dick would have made the deadline.
I will have to find the context for the he-she mistake.
Thanks for the galumping.
It is in OED
intr. Orig., to march on exultingly with irregular bounding movements. Now usu., to gallop heavily; to bound or move clumsily or noisily. Hence galumphing ppl. a. and vbl. n., lit. and fig.
1872 ‘L. CARROLL’ Through Looking-Glass i. 22 He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. 1881 Punch 27 Aug. 94/2 The [H.M.S.] Hercules got up steam and went on her way westward galumphing. 1888 N. York World 13 May (Farmer), A green bobtail car that galumphed through Lewis Street at a high rate of speed. 1891 Harper's Mag. Aug. 378/2 He [a dog] became a.. playful, gracefully galumphing, and most affectionate monster. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 29 June 476/2 It is his humor, his ‘galumphing’ humor, which strikes a chill to the heart. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 15 Aug. 2/2 A postman in uniform galumphed about on a farm-horse. 1903 Daily Chron. 31 Oct. 8/1 There would be such a galumphing up their stairs that peace and security would forsake them. 1930 C. MACKENZIE April Fools xii. 271 Viola..had slept through the stifled cries of her parents beneath the bedclothes when Beyle [sc. a bull-dog] was galumphing round their room. 1965 S. RAVEN Friends in Low Places vi. 129 In the hall was a galumphing lass with a lot of jerseys and a po face.
I think we should write to OED and put in AR's use of the word.
John