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(transitive, nonce word) To relieve from the dumps; to cause to cheer up..
When the Queen was out of humour, he could undumpish her
True, they in the end give the droll his immortality, but they can be a terrible affliction in the meantime to those who would live by undumpishing.
Who, Dr. Weisblatt asked, could undumpish the Chairman of the Coal Board (apparently one of the most oppressive of the public bodies of the day), or tell him his faults effectively, if not a Coal Board Fool?
Will Somers could “undumpish” Henry VIII, and Armin gives an account that he says in living memory of some still at Greenwhich, of how he succeeded in making a solemn Henry first smile and then laugh enough to forget his bad mood, all with a riddle[.]
Use undumpish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Undumpish means (transitive, nonce word) To relieve from the dumps; to cause to cheer up..
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When the Queen was out of humour, he could undumpish her
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