gump
/ɡʌmp/
gump noun: a foolish person. Also the clipping of gumption.
Noun
gump (countable and uncountable, plural gumps)
- 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...1829, David Walker, Walker’s Appeal, Boston: for the author, page 33
- […] 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.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
- 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!2006, George Pelecanos & Ed Burns, “That's Got His Own” (34:40 from the start), in The Wire, season 4, episode 12, spoken by Kenard (Thuliso Dingwall)
- Namond Brice (Julito McCullum): Yo, where the package at man?
Phrase capitalized: GUMP
GUMP
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Gump
Gump (plural Gumps)
- A surname.
Also used as
gump is also the clipping of gumption.
gump meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu
gump in Hindi
- गंप
gump in Marathi
- गंप
gump in Urdu
- گمپ
gump in Telugu
- గంపు
More languagesFewer languages
- gump in Malayalam
- ഗമ്പ്
- gump in Kannada
- ಗಂಪ್
- gump in Punjabi
- ਗੰਪ
- gump in Gujarati
- ગમ્પ, ગંપ
- gump in Odia
- ଗମ୍ପ, ଗମ୍ପ୍
- gump in Nepali
- गम्प
Examples of gump in a sentence
- 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!1913, Edna Ferber, chapter 1, in Roast Beef, Medium, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 18:
- "'Tis thou, thou gump," grinned Catweazle evilly, and put Touchwood down on the soap dish.1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 22:
Synonyms of gump
Forms of gump
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gumps |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Gumps |
Origin of gump
Perhaps related to gumption. The term long pre-dates the slow-witted character from the 1994 film Forrest Gump.
Phrases with gump
Words that rhyme with gump
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Questions about gump
- What does gump mean?
- Gump means a foolish person.
- What is gump in Hindi?
- Gump in Hindi is गंप. See Gump meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use gump in a sentence?
- 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!
- What part of speech is gump?
- Gump can be a noun, a phrase or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce gump?
- Gump is pronounced /ɡʌmp/.
- What is the plural of gump?
- The plural of gump is gumps.
Words near gump in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gump (page history and authors); GUMP (page history and authors); Gump (page history and authors); gump (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gump (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gump (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gump (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gump (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gump (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gump (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gump (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gump (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gump (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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