To move or run clumsily or heavily. 

[Phonesthemic invention of Lewis Carroll, perhaps blend of gallop and triumphant.]

             Absolutely no one in the history of Mankind had ever suffered as much as Maraj was suffering today.  The pain from her broken ankle wet her lashes and made her custom-compound mascara run.  Worse, the injury her wrestler friend accidentally inflicted in a moment of over excitement left her galumphing around like some old horse ready to be put out to pasture.

            How would she ever live this way for six weeks?  -- N

--
Booboisie: (boo-bwa-ZEE) noun                  

            A segment of the general public composed of uneducated, uncultured persons.   

[Blend of boob + bourgeoisie; coined by H.L. Mencken in 1922] 

             On Sunday, the unwashed masses of booboisie gathered late in the afternoon for an all-day protest at the governor's office. -- N

__

Background: 

Along with countless other people the world over, I enjoy my subscription to A. Word. A. Day. that results in a daily email message with interesting, sometimes completely unknown-to-me words, along with pronounciation guide, etymology typical usage and more.

The New York Times hailed AWADmail as: "The most welcomed, most enduring piece of daily mass e-mail in cyberspace."

One day way back when, I decided that for learning, it would be helpful and fun to use the words AWAD sent to me in a sentence or two. Of course I found myself going beyond that and using them in not-so-obvious ways that entertained my friends as well as myself. Sometimes I use words incorrectly on purpose. But if you know the meaning, you get the joke. It is kind of a backward way of doing things, but that's creativity, right?

The first character inspired by AWAD was Maraj (not her real name.) She has quite a few fans. At the encouragement of several persistent friends, I decided it was time to share her and the others with my new friends here at OS, and begin on the first day of 2010. 

I'm offering vocabulary words I received from AWAD and what I wrote to practice using them. Tell me this isn't a much more fun way to work on improving one's vocabulary. Enjoy. Maraj and more will be back – and check out www.wordsmith.org to sign up for the free subscription. They don't know me, but for fun tell them I sent you. Like OS, it can be addictive. -- Natalie