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Quotation dates: 1829, 1894
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†SLUMPER, v. To move in a laborious heavy-footed way, to lumber along, to flounder in mud or the like. [′slʌmpər]m.Sc. 1829 G. Robertson Rural Recoll. 38:
The carts or carriages had to slumper through in a half-swimming state.Sc. 1894 S. Smiles J. Wedgwood 92:
The slumpering along of packhorses.
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