dumps
noun🔊/dʌmps/
🔊/dʌmps/
Word Originearly 16th cent. (originally singular in the sense ‘a dazed or puzzled state’): probably a figurative use of Middle Dutch domp ‘haze, mist’.
[plural]Idioms Idioms
down in the dumps
- (informal)
feeling unhappy 闷闷不乐；沮丧 He’d been down in the dumps since his girlfriend left him. 自从女友离开他以来，他就一直在垃圾场里呆着。