gump

See also: 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,
  […] 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,
  […] 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,
  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,
  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,
  “I’m a gump, Keith,” he exclaimed. “Someone ought to kick me. I never was so plumb mistook in all of my born days.”
- 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 22:
  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.
(Baltimore, District of Columbia, slang) A weak or soft person.

References

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Swedish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɵmp/
Rhymes: -ɡɵmp

Noun

gump c

rump

Declension

Declension of gump
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gump	gumpen	gumpar	gumparna
Genitive	gumps	gumpens	gumpars	gumparnas