Word: galumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carroll) fostered the fad of the portmanteau word (samples: chortle, combining chuckle and snort; galumph, to gallop triumphantly). But by & large, students have always been the real wordmakers. Sometimes, indeed, their words have become English. Among them: blazer, sophomore and constitutional-originally a bookworm's form of exercise...