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
Wasn't old Mrs. Scattergood almost right when she called him "a gump"?
From Janice Day at Poketown by Long, Helen Beecher
Nothing in sight but sand and space; No chance for a gink to feed his face; Not even a shack to beg for a lump, Or a hen-house to frisk for a single gump.
From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by Lomax, John Avery
It’s paying my way that has made me popular, I’m not such a gump as not to know that.
From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
A lot of guess-work gumps, I often think; and yet the laity need them for comfort.”
From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)
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
Do suthin', some o' ye," he snarled, "'stid o' standin' round like gumps!
From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Stark, Harriet
I answers, "Just as soon," And so we clutched and whirled into the gumps, But every time I went to stir my stumps They stuck like gum-drops to a macaroon.
From The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor by Irwin, Wallace
"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
