slumpy

slumpy

English

Etymology

slump +‎ -y

Adjective

slumpy (comparative slumpier, superlative slumpiest)

1. Characteristic of an economic slump.
   • 2009 March 5, Mike Albo, “If the Apple Store Sold Clothing ...”, in New York Times‎:

     Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process.

2. (informal) Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.
   • 1980, Nelson Ottah, The Trial of Biafra's Leaders, quoted in Brian Oliver, The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals, Bloomsbury (2014), ISBN 9781472907325, page 111:

     Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence.

   • 2004, Hank Stuever, Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere, Picador (2004), ISBN 9780312424886, page 134:

     Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier.

   • 2015, Chloe Cole, Coercion, unnumbered page:

     Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman.

3. (Britain, US, dialectal) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)