gump

Example Sentences

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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

"No; get down, gump," said Pomona, and down she scrambled.

From Rudder Grange by Stockton, Frank Richard

Of the morrow we take no heed, no care infests the day; Some hand-out gump and a train to jump, a grip on the rods, and away!

From The Landloper by Day, Holman

Wasn't old Mrs. Scattergood almost right when she called him "a gump"?

From Janice Day at Poketown by Long, Helen Beecher