gumph

== English == === Etymology 1 === Unknown. ==== Alternative forms ==== gump, gumpf, gumpth ==== Noun ==== gumph (countable and uncountable, plural gumphs) A foolish person; a gump. (uncountable, slang) Nonsense. 2000 April, Linda Grant, Remind Me Who I Am, Again, Granta Books, New Ed edition (July), →ISBN, page 266 ‘It’s like listening to adolescent daughters with all their gumph and they’re going to chew you out...’ 2003 June 6, Chris Wooding, Crashing, Scholastic Point, Scholastic Paperbacks (November), →ISBN, pages 100-101 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. === Etymology 2 === Shortening of gumption. ==== Alternative forms ==== gump ==== Noun ==== gumph (uncountable) (uncountable) Gumption; grit. 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. === Etymology 3 === From Scots [Term?]. ==== Alternative forms ==== gump ==== Verb ==== gumph (third-person singular simple present gumphs, present participle gumphing, simple past and past participle gumphed) (intransitive) To grope, especially after fish. (transitive, used with out) To catch fish by groping. === References === “gumph”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “gumph”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.