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

Later in his bewildered and almost ludicrous widowerhood tears would sometimes galumph down on his daughter's face as Henry rocked her of evenings and Sunday mornings.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie