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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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Ummm, maybe I'm the first one to point it out, but the gummint is busy fighting the last war.
Balkinization 2007
ry commented on the word gummint
gubmint?
December 11, 2012
alexz commented on the word gummint
it's slang for government
February 11, 2013
ry commented on the word gummint
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
alexz commented on the word gummint
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