gump
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“Don’t be a gump, Jean Louise. You know how he feels about it. After all, I did it,” said Henry.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
I felt like a gump doing it, but all that went out the window when Aaron said, "Nice shoes, man."
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
Wasn't old Mrs. Scattergood almost right when she called him "a gump"?
From Janice Day at Poketown by Helen Beecher Long
She don’t want a reg’lar gump hanging around her.
From Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys by Alice B. Emerson
His family cannot determine whether he is a gump or a genius.
From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Laurence Hutton
And you and me are missing it all, like a couple of gumps.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
He had no sooner felt the pull at the line than he began to laugh and "pshaw! pshaw!" and said that all in that party were gumps and geese, except himself and Luke.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated by Various
Oh! what a bunch of gumps we were to leave her that way, to run to a fire.”
From The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat by Quincy Allen
Do suthin', some o' ye," he snarled, "'stid o' standin' round like gumps!
From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Harriet Stark
"What gumps girls are when you take them out-of-doors!"
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated by Various
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