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
Don't stand there like a gump stretching my bell- wire all out of shape.
From A Fool There Was by Browne, Porter Emerson
Because it was right in that copy of Treasure Island that's laying there," he shouted, "and I'm one big gump, that's what I am!
From Roy Blakeley by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
His family cannot determine whether he is a gump or a genius.
From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Hutton, Laurence
