gumph

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A foolish person

   A foolish person; a gump.

   • Gump, a numscull.
   • Drossy saw ’em in her drawer, and for all the gumph he is, he knew the writing; and I made him get ’em for me this morning while they were at breakfast.
   • He strikes me as the perfect example of an intellectual gumph. He knows too much!
2. 2

   Nonsense.

   • Things had not been going will with Pino ever since he started to take Sister Apollonia’s bloated gumph as gospel. Thanks to the wacko, his man was actually getting a Christ complex.
   • ‘It’s like listening to adolescent daughters with all their gumph and they’re going to chew you out...’
   • Between a couple of silent factories, beat-box music drifted over to us. Some kind of unrecognizable chart gumph; the usual mix of soul and rap.
3. 3

   Gumption

   Gumption; grit.

   • Never lifted a hand to defend himself, hadn’t got any gumph.
   • 1955, Mathematics Teaching, Association of Teachers of Mathematics ...anyone likely to use the book would surely have enough gumph to try both before giving up.
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   1. 4

      To grope, especially after fish.

   2. 5

      To catch fish by groping.

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