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Excess vs Gumph - What's the difference?

excess | gumph |

As nouns the difference between excess and gumph

is that excess is the state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light while gumph is a foolish person; a gump.

As an adjective excess

is more than is normal, necessary or specified.

excess

English

Noun

(es) (Spherical excess)
  • The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
  • * , King John , act 4, scene 2:
  • To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
    To throw a perfume on the violet, . . .
    Is wasteful and ridiculous excess .
  • * , "Jealosy", in The Poetical Works of William Walsh (1797), page 19 (Google preview):
  • That kills me with excess' of grief, this with ' excess of joy.
  • The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
  • The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
  • An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
  • * :
  • And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess .
  • * 1667 , , Paradise Lost , Book III:
  • Fair Angel, thy desire . . .
    . . . leads to no excess
    That reaches blame
  • (geometry) Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
  • (British, insurance) A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.
  • Synonyms

    * (qualifier) (l)

    Antonyms

    * deficiency

    Adjective

    (-)
  • More than is normal, necessary or specified.
  • Derived terms

    * excess baggage

    See also

    * usury

    gumph

    English

    Noun

  • A foolish person; a gump
  • * 1860 , Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner, Say and Seal , page 246
  • 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.
  • *1919 , St. John Greer Ervine, John Ferguson
  • He strikes me as the perfect example of an intellectual gumph . He knows too much!
  • * 1938 , George Smith, The Cornhill Magazine , page 816
  • ‘ Tell them what, you gumph  ? ’ cried Squibs. ‘ Are you all mad ? ’
  • * 1971 , Ronald Hayman, John Gielgud , Random House, New York
  • If Romeo were just a lovesick gumph , occasionally falling into a deeper trance in which he speaks unaccountable poetry, then Olivier is your Romeo.
  • (uncountable) Gumption; grit.
  • * Violet Hunt, The Coach
  • Never lifted a hand to defend himself, hadn’t got any gumph .
  • * 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.
  • (uncountable, slang) Gumpth; excess.
  • * 1998 December 15, T.C. Van Adler, St. Agatha's Breast: A Novel , St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312200196,
  • 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.
  • * 2000 April, Linda Grant, Remind Me Who I Am, Again , Granta Books, New Ed edition (July), ISBN 1862072442, 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 0439090121, 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.