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

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

From Janice Day at Poketown by Long, Helen Beecher

"Dear old gump, you forget that I was brought up in this very neighborhood."

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

"Den de yuther creeturs, dey tuck'n holler back:— "'Ef big man like you ain't a-gone gump, he kin sneeze anywhar he please.'

From Nights With Uncle Remus by Winter, Milo