Gumph

noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A foolish person; a gump. countable, uncountable

    "Gump, a numscull."

  2. 2
    Gumption; grit. uncountable

    "Never lifted a hand to defend himself, hadn’t got any gumph."

  3. 3
    Nonsense. slang, uncountable

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To grope, especially after fish. intransitive
  2. 2
    To catch fish by groping. transitive

Synonyms

All synonyms
gumptiongumption

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Etymology 2

Shortening of gumption.

Etymology 3

From Scots [Term?].

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