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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