gump
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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
“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
"No; get down, gump," said Pomona, and down she scrambled.
From Rudder Grange by Frank Richard Stockton
It wouldn't have been brave in that gump, Edith, without a nerve in her body.
From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
You know I’m a gump on an empty stomach.”
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
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
"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
"There's a good many born gumps not so far from here as her house," interjected Phinney.
From The Depot Master by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
And you and me are missing it all, like a couple of gumps.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
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
