gump
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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
"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
Here's where I get paid for being a silly gump.
From Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Douglas, Alan
I'm just beginning to get the hang of the Maxixe and the Hesitation, and I thought if you could give me a couple of days' real hard work I wouldn't be such an awful gump.
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
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 Irwin, Wallace
"There's a good many born gumps not so far from here as her house," interjected Phinney.
From The Depot Master by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
She looked up with mild astonishment when, as they left the town by the highroad southward, Father burst out, “I’ll play if I want to, but I can’t stand the gawping gumps here.”
From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Lewis, Sinclair
He had no sooner felt the pull at the line than he began to laugh and "pshaw! pshaw!" and said that all in that party were gumps and geese, except himself and Luke.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated by Various
"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
