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
synonym depressed闷闷不乐;沮丧 - He’d been down in the dumps since his girlfriend left him.
自从女友离开他后,他一直情绪低落。
- He’d been down in the dumps since his girlfriend left him.