galumphEnglishOxford Dictionary of Englishgalumph /ɡəˈlʌmf / ▸ verb [no object, with adverbial of direction] informal move in a clumsy, ponderous, or noisy manner: she galumphed along beside him. – ORIGIN 1871 (in the sense ‘prance in triumph’): coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass; perhaps a blend of gallop and triumph.