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dumps
Sorrow; melancholy; sadness.--Johnson. We say of a person who is dull or sad, 'He has the dumps,' or...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Down in the dumps; low-spirited, melancholy: jocularly said to be derived from Dumpos, a king of Egypt, who died of melancholy. Dumps are also small pieces of lead, cast by schoolboys in the shape of money.
Sorrow; melancholy; sadness.--Johnson. We say of a person who is dull or sad, 'He has the dumps,' or...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.