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 GlumGlutton (The). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Glumdal’clitch.
 
A girl, nine years old, and only forty feet high, who had charge of Gulliver in Brobdingnag. (Swift: Gulliver’s Travels.)   1
       
“Soon as Glumdalclitch missed her pleasing care,
She wept, she blubbered, and she tore her hair.”
       
Pope.
 


 GlumGlutton (The). 

 
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