gump
Americannoun
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gumps
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gump
First recorded in 1815–25; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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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
“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
Of the morrow we take no heed, no care infests the day; Some hand-out gump and a train to jump, a grip on the rods, and away!
From The Landloper by Holman Day
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
Because it was right in that copy of Treasure Island that's laying there," he shouted, "and I'm one big gump, that's what I am!
From Roy Blakeley by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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
Oh! what a bunch of gumps we were to leave her that way, to run to a fire.”
From The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat by Quincy Allen
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
"There's a good many born gumps not so far from here as her house," interjected Phinney.
From The Depot Master by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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
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