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Gumption   /gˈəmpʃən/   Listen
noun
Gumption  n.  
1.
Capacity; shrewdness; common sense. (Colloq.) "One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated."
2.
(Paint.)
(a)
The art of preparing colors.
(b)
Megilp.
3.
Initiative; resourcefulness.
4.
Courage; guts.





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"Gumption" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, 'Don't slobber me; I won't have it; you and I are bad friends.' Oughtn't you to have said, 'Eve could never give herself the pain of crossing me' (no, there isn't a man in the world with gumption enough to say that—that is a woman's thought); but at least you might have said, 'She sees rocks ahead that I can't.' (Balaam couldn't see the drawn sword ahead, but there it was.) it was for you ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... "Well, you furnish gumption for the crowd, and I came to ask you what to do. Our fellows' backs are broken, and they will go on deck when the ...
— Down the Rhine - Young America in Germany • Oliver Optic
... dined. Your story, if you please. Why are you here? for you are a good fellow, but you haven't got gumption enough to say to yourself, 'These two will get lost in the bush, I'll take Jacky ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade
... it that way, yes. But really, I'm his apprentice, and I'm learning his trade. I study his methods, and I add some gumption of my own, and if I can help him, I'm glad and happy. And ...
— Vicky Van • Carolyn Wells
... not to dodge the assessments, as so many of the stockholders did, by putting all your property in your wife's name. So, since you made one investment twenty-five years ago that has not seemed to depreciate in value very much,—an investment in a raw young boy who did not have enough gumption to fasten a barn door,—here is the interest on what the investment was worth to the boy, at least a little of it; for I can never begin to pay it all. Good-by, both of you, and may God bless you! Here comes ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various


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