gumptious
gumptious adjective: having gumption.
Adjective
gumptious (comparative more gumptious, superlative most gumptious)
- Having gumption.
- Every reader has a right to know his authour’s motives for publishing at all, to be brought acquainted with his means of performance and his eligibility for the task; and the latter having likewise his rights to assert, this mutuality begets the undisputed custom of preface—the more gumptious the...1825, Jon Bee, John Badcock, Sportsman's Slang: A New Dictionary ...., page iii
- She was always—not exactly proud like, but what I calls gumptious.” ¶ “I never heard that word before,” said the Parson, laying down his knife and fork. “Bumptious, indeed, though I believe it is not in the dictionary, has crept into familiar parlance, especially amongst young folks at school and...1840, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel, by Pisistratus Caxton: Or, Varieties in English Life
Examples of gumptious in a sentence
- She was always—not exactly proud like, but what I calls gumptious.” ¶ “I never heard that word before,” said the Parson, laying down his knife and fork.1840, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel, by Pisistratus Caxton: Or, Varieties in English Life:
- A cow that will produce from sixty dollars' to eighty dollars' worth of butter-fat in the year does not need to raise a gumptious calf that would meet the needs of the beef man.1903, Quarterly Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, page 12:
- It is the active bezumistic principle of the happy hircus and is estimated to be at least 400 per cent, stronger than the gumption of the most gumptious human.1905, Michael Monahan, editor, The Papyrus, volume 5, number 1, pages 18–9:
- BOARDS & BUREAUS / Gumptious Governor / First step in President Roosevelt's inflation program calls for the Federal Reserve System to enter the open market and buy up to $3,000,000,000 worth of U.1933, Briton Hadden, editor, Time, volume 21, National Affairs, page 14:
Forms of gumptious
| comparative | more gumptious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most gumptious |
Origin of gumptious
From gumption + -ous.
Questions about gumptious
- What does gumptious mean?
- Gumptious means having gumption.
- How do you use gumptious in a sentence?
- She was always—not exactly proud like, but what I calls gumptious.” ¶ “I never heard that word before,” said the Parson, laying down his knife and fork.
- What part of speech is gumptious?
- Gumptious is an adjective.
Words near gumptious in the dictionary
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