galumph

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The episode's party-fouling crime of passion happens during a confusing galumph that's occasionally punctuated by everyone throwing up a hand while yelling, "Hey!"

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2022

Chances are some jovial galumph that resembles Macdonald has been a part of your life at some point.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2018

Scalia’ll reprove ya With some jurisprudential effluvia, Then, with scowling harrumph And a baleful galumph, He’ll trudge homeward to Antediluvia.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2015

Mr. Zaks puts the human characters on stilts to foster a dog’s-eye view, forcing the actors to galumph around precariously and use their arms for balance, like Frankenstein creations fresh from the lab.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2010

For Banjo, directly he felt his master on his back, began to galumph about the yard with a clatter of hoofs among the injured fan-tails and to the discomfiture of Maudie.

From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Ollivant, Alfred