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Gumption   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



... "You just used your gumption, and tackled the job as you would any other rapids, depending on your quick eye, a firm wrist with the paddle, and general good sense, wasn't that it, ...
— Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay - The Disappearing Fleet • G. Harvey Ralphson
... mun say I nivver seed nowt loike it i' my loife. To think o' th' little wench ha'in' so mich gumption, an' to think o' her takkin th' matter i' hond th' minnit she struck it! Why! hoo's getten as mich sense as a mon. Eh! but hoo's a rare un—I said it when I seed her amongst th' lads theer, an' I say it again. An' hoo is na mich ...
— That Lass O' Lowrie's - 1877 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... deal o' chaffin' among 'em, and some fightin', too, now and then; for I needn't tell you that a Rooshan and a Tartar are jist about as fond of each other as a Rooshan and a Turk. Now-a-days, the masters have had the gumption to change the hours of work, and keep 'em out of each other's way; but in my time there was a scrimmage nearly every week, though nothin' like this 'un I'm ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various
... I have heard of men who wept and retailed their woes; and I have heard of women with gumption. ...
— Happiness and Marriage • Elizabeth (Jones) Towne
... sniveling. [The Tyro was taking a bit of revenge on the side.] You can't change your stateroom. There isn't another to be had on board. And if it's good enough for Mother, I think it ought to be good enough for you. Do have some gumption, Amy, and cut out the salty-tear business. Come on ...
— Little Miss Grouch - A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's - Maiden Transatlantic Voyage • Samuel Hopkins Adams


Words linked to "Gumption" :   fortitude, judgement, sagacity, colloquialism, discernment, logic, nous, sense, mother wit, sagaciousness, grit


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