gumph

A foolish person; a gump.

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.

Nonsense.

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...’

Gumption; grit.

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.

To grope, especially after fish.

To catch fish by groping.