2. From {Dump} sadness.]
1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately
stout.
[1913 Webster]
2. Sullen or discontented. See 2nd {dump[1]}. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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