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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



... sudden. The sound of horses' hoofs roused him; it was the rustic messenger returning. 'Where's the doctor?' demanded Samson. 'Gone to Heydon Hey. What am I to dew?' 'Follow him an' fetch him back. Hast not gumption enough to know that?' asked Samson wearily. The man started again, and Samson began once more his purposeless wanderings about the yard. He had no sense of time or place, only a leaden weight on heart and limb, which in all his life he had never known before. He leaned his elbows ...
— Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray • David Christie Murray
... averred that Mr. Arnold had no gumption. Miss Cornelia was not apt to err on the side of charity in her judgment of Methodist ministers, but in this case she did not greatly overshoot the mark. The Rev. Mr. Arnold certainly did not have much of ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... gumption enough to say that she's a beauty." Sally settled the question with her ...
— Phyllis - A Twin • Dorothy Whitehill
... clean house, I will clean house," she mused, "in spite of all the ingratitude and not listenin'. 'T won't take long, and it'll do my heart good to see the place clean again. Evelina's got no gumption about a house—never did have. I s'pose she thinks it's clean just because she's swept it and brushed down the cobwebs, but it needs more 'n a broom to take ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... his men coming round from the Head. And that poor lippity-lop, Abram Sclanders' eldest.—Pity he wasn't put away quiet-like at birth!—Terrible drag he is on Abram and always will be. Anybody with an ounce of gumption might have seen he'd be a short-wit from the first.—I took him over; but that 'ud the opposite way about, as he wanted to go shrimping back of the ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet


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