gump
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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
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 John Avery Lomax
You know I’m a gump on an empty stomach.”
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
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 Gertrude Hall Brownell
"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
Oh! what a bunch of gumps we were to leave her that way, to run to a fire.”
From The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat by Quincy Allen
"There's a good many born gumps not so far from here as her house," interjected Phinney.
From The Depot Master by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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 Wallace Irwin
And you and me are missing it all, like a couple of gumps.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
