gump
Example Sentences
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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
His family cannot determine whether he is a gump or a genius.
From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Hutton, Laurence
"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
"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)
