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Examples

  • Of course, in practice “gummint is spending too much money” complainers are complaining that government is spending money keeping brown people healthy rather than bombing them.

    Matthew Yglesias » Profiling Lite 2010

  • The local gummint is tweaking the laws on surrogate pregnancy and Jurassic Right has gone mental because poofs and dykes might suddenly get their filthy hands on Our Kids.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Ignorant munters and life on the gay Planet Parenthood. 2010

  • There's no need for tax rises when gummint is wasting up to £100 bn a year on quangoes and five-a-day-advisors.

    Tax Rises For One Nation Is A Good Deal Newmania 2008

  • There's no need for tax rises when gummint is wasting up to £100 bn a year on quangoes and five-a-day-advisors.

    Tax Rises For One Nation Is A Good Deal Newmania 2008

  • Ummm, maybe I'm the first one to point it out, but the gummint is busy fighting the last war.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Ummm, maybe I'm the first one to point it out, but the gummint is busy fighting the last war.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Ummm, maybe I'm the first one to point it out, but the gummint is busy fighting the last war.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Ummm, maybe I'm the first one to point it out, but the gummint is busy fighting the last war.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Ummm, maybe I'm the first one to point it out, but the gummint is busy fighting the last war.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Ummm, maybe I'm the first one to point it out, but the gummint is busy fighting the last war.

    Balkinization 2007

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  • gubmint?

    December 11, 2012

  • it's slang for government

    February 11, 2013

  • Ah, see I'd seen it with different spelling(s), now I'm thinking it must have been in older works. Mark Twain maybe.

    ngram

    February 12, 2013

  • The Flathead indians had the word gummint

    http://goo.gl/VWJGY

    A dictionary of the Kalispel or Flat-head Indian language, ... - Page 207

    Joseph Giorda - 1879

    "GUM roof o Ies gumminem gummin gummint v tr 11 I ardently wish fop him or it I long for him for an object not possessed yet Gummin s Object of ardent desires les gummi ftcm gummiltcn gum milt v rel 16 I long for his "

    Earliest 'gummint' for government i could find at google books is.

    Electric light & power - Volume 30 - Page 142

    books.google.ca/books?id=xYsnAAAAMAAJ

    Ell C. Bennett - 1951 - Snippet view - More editions

    President Hoover may have impressed you — Eisenhower's nomination may have bothered you — Senator Magnuson's blather about 'gummint' power may have made you mad — Colonel lake getting Stevenson's draft call arranged may ...

    I noticed that google book's search engine swapped gummint for government when I did a search for gummint magnuson

    February 12, 2013