Meaning of gumph | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A foolish person; a gump.
   countable, uncountable
2. Gumption; grit.
   uncountable
3. Nonsense.
   slang, uncountable

Examples

“Gump, a numscull.”

“Drossy saw ’em in her drawer, and for all the gumph he is, he knew the writing; and I made him get ’em for me this morning while they were at breakfast.”

“He strikes me as the perfect example of an intellectual gumph. He knows too much!”

“‘ Tell them what, you gumph ? ’ cried Squibs. ‘ Are you all mad ? ’”

“If Romeo were just a lovesick gumph, occasionally falling into a deeper trance in which he speaks unaccountable poetry, then Olivier is your Romeo.”

“Things had not been going will with Pino ever since he started to take Sister Apollonia’s bloated gumph as gospel. Thanks to the wacko, his man was actually getting a Christ complex.”

“‘It’s like listening to adolescent daughters with all their gumph and they’re going to chew you out...’”

“Between a couple of silent factories, beat-box music drifted over to us. Some kind of unrecognizable chart gumph; the usual mix of soul and rap.”

“Never lifted a hand to defend himself, hadn’t got any gumph.”

“1955, Mathematics Teaching, Association of Teachers of Mathematics ...anyone likely to use the book would surely have enough gumph to try both before giving up.”

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