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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

English

Etymology

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision", also "to make a heavy, hollow sound, boom”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”). Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”), probably of imitative origin. More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)

1. A light blow or jolting collision.
2. The sound of such a collision.
3. A protuberance on a level surface.
4. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
5. (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymically) the faculty itself
   • c.1845 Thomas MacNevin, cited in Charles Gavan Duffy (1896) Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45; final revision (London: T.F. Unwin) Vol.II p.100:

     Our task is to elevate the character of the people, raising up, in fact, their bump of self-esteem and suppressing the bumps of servility and fury.

6. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
7. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
8. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
9. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.

10. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
11. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
12. (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
13. In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
14. (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
15. A training match for a fighting dog.
16. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
17. (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)

1. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
2. To move up or down by a step; displace.

3. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
4. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
5. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
   • 2005, Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)

     Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years' […]

6. (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
   • 2010, Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual, p. 332:

     A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30.

7. (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
8. (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.

   • as a bittern bumps within a reed

9. (printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
10. (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
    • 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)

      You know about the night the kid bumped Brody?

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

bump

1. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

Danish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, compare English bump.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bom?p/, [?b??m?b?]
• Homophone: bomb

Noun

bump n (singular definite bumpet, plural indefinite bump)

1. thud
2. jolt
3. road hump

Inflection

Derived terms

• vejbump
• bumpe

Verb

bump (form)

1. imperative of bumpe

Welsh

Numeral

bump

1. Soft mutation of pump (“five”).

Mutation