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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-912/
- Published: 2022-07-29T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-24T21:11:54.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04

The word for today is…

galumph (verb):

to move with a clumsy heavy tread

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galumphing?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Galumph first lumbered onto the English scene in 1872 when Lewis Carroll used the word to describe the actions of the vanquisher of the Jabberwock in Through the Looking Glass: “He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back.” Carroll likely constructed the word by splicing gallop and triumphant (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.

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