different between gump vs sump

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

Alternative forms

• sumph (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sompe, either from Middle Dutch somp, sump or Middle Low German sump, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. See swamp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

sump (plural sumps)

1. A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
2. The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
3. A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
4. (automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
5. (nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
6. (construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.

Derived terms

• dry sump
• sump pump
• wet sump

Translations

Verb

sump (third-person singular simple present sumps, present participle sumping, simple past and past participle sumped)

1. (intransitive) Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.

   We discovered a new passage, but it sumped after 100 metres.

   This low passage sumps quickly after moderate rainfall.

Translations

Anagrams

• umps

Danish

Noun

sump

1. swamp

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German sump and German Sumpf

Noun

sump m (definite singular sumpen, indefinite plural sumper, definite plural sumpene)

1. a swamp (type of wetland)

Derived terms

• sumpskilpadde

References

• “sump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German sump and German Sumpf

Noun

sump m (definite singular sumpen, indefinite plural sumpar, definite plural sumpane)

1. a swamp (type of wetland)

References

• “sump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German sump and German Sumpf

Noun

sump c

1. (fishing, containers) a corf, a container for keeping live fish
2. (geography) a swamp

Declension

Hyponyms

• sumprunkare – a man working with shaking corfs
• sumpmark – marsh
• kaffesump – left over coffee grounds in the bottom of a cup or brewing vessel

References

• sump in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sump in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)