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
I had stepped from the bushes when she first appeared and was standing motionless, staring, I imagine, like what Dorinda sometimes called her husband—a "born gump."
From The Rise of Roscoe Paine by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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
