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gump
English
Noun
gump (plural gumps)
- (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
- rump
Declension
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gums
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mz/
Noun
gums
- plural of gum
Verb
gums
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gum
Anagrams
- MGUs, mugs, smug
Icelandic
Noun
gums n (genitive singular gums, no plural)
- goo, slime
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