different between gum vs gump

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?m, IPA^(key): /??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English gome, from Old English g?ma (“palate”), from Proto-Germanic *g?mô, *gaumô (“palate”) (compare German Gaumen, Old Norse gómr (whence Icelandic gómur)), from Proto-Indo-European *??h?u-mo- (compare Tocharian A ko, Tocharian B koy? (“mouth”), Lithuanian gomur?s (“palate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *??eh?w- (“to gape, yawn”). More at yawn.

Noun

gum (plural gums)

1. (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.

Synonyms

• gingiva (medical)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gum (third-person singular simple present gums, present participle gumming, simple past and past participle gummed)

1. To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
2. (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.

Etymology 2

From Middle English gomme, gumme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek ????? (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”). Cognate with Spanish goma (“rubber”).

Noun

gum (countable and uncountable, plural gums)

1. (chiefly uncountable) Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants.
2. (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling those that are exuded by certain plants.
3. (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
4. (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.

   Do you have a gum to spare?

5. (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
6. (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
7. (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
8. (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
9. A gum tree.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

gum (third-person singular simple present gums, present participle gumming, simple past and past participle gummed)

1. (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
2. To stiffen with glue or gum.
3. (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
4. (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.

   That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.

   The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.

Derived terms

• gum up
• by gum

Anagrams

• MGU, mug

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?um/
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

gum

1. genitive plural of guma

Dutch

Alternative forms

• gom (dated in the meaning “eraser”).

Etymology

A relatively recent variant of gom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/
• Hyphenation: gum

Noun

gum m (plural gummen, diminutive gummetje n)

1. An eraser.

Derived terms

• gummen
• kneedgum

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

gum n (genitive singular gums, no plural)

1. boasting, exaggeration

   Synonyms: gort, raup

Declension

Derived terms

• guma (“to boast, to exaggerate”)

Middle English

Noun

gum

1. Alternative form of gumme

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?um/

Noun

gum f pl

1. genitive plural of guma

Scots

Etymology 1

From English gum.

Noun

gum (plural gums)

1. gum

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above.

Alternative forms

• gumm

Noun

gum (plural gums)

1. mist, vapour, haze

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• gu
• gun

Conjunction

gum

1. that

   Tha mi cinnteach gum biodh e toilichte. - I'm certain that he would be happy.

Usage notes

• Used before b, f, m and p.

Turkmen

Noun

gum (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. sand

Zazaki

Noun

gum ?

1. (anatomy) cheek

English

Noun

gump (plural gumps)

1. (US, dated) A foolish person.

   Synonyms: dunce, fool, nitwit

   • 1829, David Walker, Walker’s Appeal, Boston: for the author, p. 33,^[1]

     […] the young ignorant gump hearing his father or mother who perhaps may be ten times more ignorant, in point of literature than himself, extoling his learning, struts about in the full assurance, that his attainments in literature are sufficient to take him through the world, when in fact, he has scarcely any learning at all!!

   • 1839, Charles Edwards Lester, Chains and Freedom: or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living, New York: E. S. Arnold, Book 2, Chapter 3, pp. 225-226,^[2]

     […] I’d no idee of going to be shot at for money, like these ’ere fools and gumps that goes down to the Florida swamps, to be shot at all day by Ingens, for eighteen pence a day.

   • 1893, Frederic Scrimshaw, The Dogs and the Fleas, Chicago: Douglas McCallum, Chapter 36, p. 222,^[3]

     Low, coarse, undiscerning simpletons, they are all animal sensibility, and have not yet developed the ability to pick truth from error, reality from show, and fraud out of its fine garments of honesty; gumps and boobies, they are pleased with a rattle and tickled with a straw.

   • 1913, Edna Ferber, Roast Beef, Medium, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, Chapter 1, p. 18,^[4]

     Every fond mama is gump enough to think that every Greek god she sees looks like her own boy, even if her own happens to squint and have two teeth missing?which mine hasn’t, thanks the Lord!

   • 1925, T. C. Bridges, The River Riders: An Exciting Lumberjack Story, London and New York: Frederick Warne, Chapter 31,^[5]

     “I’m a gump, Keith,” he exclaimed. “Someone ought to kick me. I never was so plumb mistook in all of my born days.”

References

• gump at OneLook Dictionary Search

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mp/
• Rhymes: -??mp

Noun

gump c

1. rump

Declension