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

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

From Janice Day at Poketown by Long, Helen Beecher

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

"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