Meaning of gump | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Clipping of gumption
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. A foolish person.
   US, countable, dated, uncountable
4. A weak or soft person.
   countable, slang, uncountable

Examples

“[…] 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!!”

“[…] 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.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

“The toad stared balefully at his reflection and puffed himself up to show⟳ that he wasn't really frightened. "'Tis thou, thou gump," grinned Catweazle evilly, and put⟳ Touchwood down on the soap dish.”

“Namond Brice (Julito McCullum): Yo, where the package at man? Kenard (Thuliso Dingwall): Package up my ass, gump! Namond Brice (Julito McCullum): Yo, I'm 'bout to- Kenard (Thuliso Dingwall): You're 'bout to! Go on, walk⟳, gump-ass motherfucker!”

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