mumpy

Suffering from mumps.

Adjective

  1. Suffering from mumps.
    • An awful struggle for Primrose. Her chin stretched up above a mumpy neck. Sister Raymond put a wet cloth on her forehead, dribbled some water across her mouth. - 1995, Thomas Keneally, A river town:
  2. Swelling; resembling mumps.

Origin

From mumps + -y.

Forms

more mumpy most mumpy