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Grit vs Gumph - What's the difference?

grit | gumph |

As nouns the difference between grit and gumph

is that grit is collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking or grit can be (usually in plural) husked]] but unground [[oat|oats while gumph is a foolish person; a gump.

As a verb grit

is to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth .

grit

English

Etymology 1

With early modern vowel shortening, from (etyl) grete, griet, from (etyl) ‘lump’).

Noun

(-)
  • Collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.
    • The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
  • Inedible particles in food.
    • It tastes like grit from nutshells in these cookies.
  • Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
    • That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
  • A measure of relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper.
    • I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
  • (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, to a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g. grindstone grit .
    • Derived terms
    * *
    Related terms
    * * * sand, sandy, sandblasting
    See also
    * debris * mortar and pestle * swarf

    Verb

  • To clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth .
    • We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
    He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
  • To cover with grit .
  • To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
  • * Goldsmith
    • The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.
    Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) gryt ‘bran, chaff’, from (etyl) grytt, from (etyl) . See above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually in plural) husked]] but unground [[oat, oats
  • (usually in plural) coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge
    • Related terms
    * *

    Anagrams

    * girt * trig

    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.