gump
Americannoun
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gumps
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gump
First recorded in 1815–25; origin uncertain
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“Don’t be a gump, Jean Louise. You know how he feels about it. After all, I did it,” said Henry.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
I felt like a gump doing it, but all that went out the window when Aaron said, "Nice shoes, man."
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
"Den de yuther creeturs, dey tuck'n holler back:— "'Ef big man like you ain't a-gone gump, he kin sneeze anywhar he please.'
From Nights With Uncle Remus by Milo Winter
Just let her think I sat around like a gump and never said a word to anybody.
From The Prince of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
It wouldn't have been brave in that gump, Edith, without a nerve in her body.
From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Do suthin', some o' ye," he snarled, "'stid o' standin' round like gumps!
From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Harriet Stark
And you and me are missing it all, like a couple of gumps.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
A lot of guess-work gumps, I often think; and yet the laity need them for comfort.”
From The Dust Flower by Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren) Kline
I answers, "Just as soon," And so we clutched and whirled into the gumps, But every time I went to stir my stumps They stuck like gum-drops to a macaroon.
From The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor by Wallace Irwin
She looked up with mild astonishment when, as they left the town by the highroad southward, Father burst out, “I’ll play if I want to, but I can’t stand the gawping gumps here.”
From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis
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