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gump
/ɡʌmp/
noun 3name 1phrase 1
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2ADJ.
ignorant, young
GUMP + NOUN
father
Definitions
noun
1
Clipping of gumption
2
A foolish person.
[…] 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.
3
A weak or soft person.
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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A surname.
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Acronym of gas (fuel), undercarriage (landing gear), mixture (fuel mixture), prop (propeller setting); a mnemonic for landing an airplane; particularly propeller-propelled carburated powered one with a retractable landing gear.
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[…] 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, tha
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[…] 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.
Wiktionary03
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
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