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Taxonomy vs Gumph - What's the difference?

taxonomy | gumph |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and gumph

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while gumph is a foolish person; a gump.

taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    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.