gump
Americannoun
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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
Wasn't old Mrs. Scattergood almost right when she called him "a gump"?
From Janice Day at Poketown by Long, Helen Beecher
"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 Winter, Milo
His family cannot determine whether he is a gump or a genius.
From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Hutton, Laurence
A lot of guess-work gumps, I often think; and yet the laity need them for comfort.”
From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)
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 Allen, Quincy
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 Irwin, Wallace
He had no sooner felt the pull at the line than he began to laugh and "pshaw! pshaw!" and said that all in that party were gumps and geese, except himself and Luke.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated by Various
And you and me are missing it all, like a couple of gumps.
From Danny's Own Story by Marquis, Don
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