It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 2nd.
Today's word is galumph, spelled G-A-L-U-M-P-H.
Galumph is a verb.
To galumph is to move in a loud and clumsy way.
Here's the word used in a sentence from NPR by Glenn Weldon.
Dragons.
Dragons roaring.
Dragons squawking.
Dragons sizing each other up.
Dragons galumphing over the sand.
So awkwardly it reminds you that dragons are creatures of the air, not the earth.
Bump, thump, thud.
There's no doubt about it.
When someone or something galumps onto the scene, ears take notice.
Galumph first lumbered onto the English scene in 1872,
when Lewis Carroll used the word to describe the actions of the vanquisher of the Jabberwock in Through the Looking-Glass.
With these words, he left it dead, and with its head he went galumphing back.
Carroll likely constructed the word by splicing the words gallop and triumphant,
as galumph did in its earliest uses convey a sense of exultant bounding.
Other 19th century writers must have liked the sound of Galumph