English
Noun
gumph (plural unattested) Category:English nouns
- A foolish person; a gump
#* 1860, Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner, Say and Seal, page 246
#*: 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.
#*1919, St. John Greer Ervine, John Ferguson
#*: He strikes me as the perfect example of an intellectual gumph. He knows too much!
#* 1938, George Smith, The Cornhill Magazine, page 816
#*: â�� Tell them what, you gumph ? â�� cried Squibs. â�� Are you all mad ? â��
#* 1971, Ronald Hayman, John Gielgud, Random House, New York
#*: If Romeo were just a lovesick gumph, occasionally falling into a deeper trance in which he speaks unaccountable poetry, then Olivier is your Romeo.
- uncountable gumption|Gumption; grit.
#* ante|1923 Violet Hunt, The Coach
#*: 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.
- context|uncountable|slang gumpth|Gumpth; excess.
#* 1998 December 15, T.C. Van Adler, St. Agatha's Breast: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312200196,
#*: 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.
#* 2000 April, Linda Grant, Remind Me Who I Am, Again, Granta Books, New Ed edition (July), ISBN 1862072442, page 266
#*: �It�s like listening to adolescent daughters with all their gumph and they�re going to chew you out...�
#* 2003 June 6, Chris Wooding, Crashing, Scholastic Point, Scholastic Paperbacks (November), ISBN 0439090121, pages 100-101
#*: 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.
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