Gumph vs Sumph - What's the difference?
gumph | sumph |
A foolish person; a gump
* 1860 , Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner, Say and Seal , page 246
*1919 , St. John Greer Ervine, John Ferguson
* 1938 , George Smith, The Cornhill Magazine , page 816
* 1971 , Ronald Hayman, John Gielgud , Random House, New York
(uncountable) Gumption; grit.
* Violet Hunt, The Coach
* 1955 , Mathematics Teaching , Association of Teachers of Mathematics
(uncountable, slang) Gumpth; excess.
* 1998 December 15, T.C. Van Adler, St. Agatha's Breast: A Novel , St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312200196,
* 2000 April, Linda Grant, Remind Me Who I Am, Again , Granta Books, New Ed edition (July), ISBN 1862072442, page 266
* 2003 June 6, Chris Wooding, Crashing , Scholastic Point, Scholastic Paperbacks (November), ISBN 0439090121, pages 100-101
As nouns the difference between gumph and sumph
is that gumph is a foolish person; a gump while sumph is a dunce; a blockhead.gumph
English
Noun
- 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.
- He strikes me as the perfect example of an intellectual gumph . He knows too much!
- ‘ Tell them what, you gumph ? ’ cried Squibs. ‘ Are you all mad ? ’
- If Romeo were just a lovesick gumph , occasionally falling into a deeper trance in which he speaks unaccountable poetry, then Olivier is your Romeo.
- Never lifted a hand to defend himself, hadn’t got any gumph .
- ... anyone likely to use the book would surely have enough gumph to try both before giving up.
- 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.
- ‘It’s like listening to adolescent daughters with all their gumph and they’re going to chew you out... ’
- 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.
