Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A foolish person; a dolt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Low. A dolt; a dunce.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun dated a dunce, a foolish person or nitwit

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Examples

  • The washingtonpost. com is actually quoting an opinion poll offered by None other FOX NEWS????? lolololololol fox attest in all the lying and spinning and even having non-other than two corrupt BLANTANT RACIST ANCHORMAN sean hannity and bubba gump aka bill o'rielly, as being FAIR AND BALANCED??????

    Top Stories - Google News 2008

  • The reference to Sarah Palin as a 'gump' chaps me too.

    Latest Articles BC Magazine 2009

  • At the risk of giving you a complement and being told to "shut up" - LOL, i don't know which i like better, your pasty white mug from the other shot, or that profile with the "gump" quote, but it gave me the best laugh i've had in a week or two!

    Tall Skinny Kiwi 2008

  • At the risk of giving you a complement and being told to "shut up" - LOL, i don't know which i like better, your pasty white mug from the other shot, or that profile with the "gump" quote, but it gave me the best laugh i've had in a week or two!

    Tall Skinny Kiwi 2008

  • At the risk of giving you a complement and being told to "shut up" - LOL, i don't know which i like better, your pasty white mug from the other shot, or that profile with the "gump" quote, but it gave me the best laugh i've had in a week or two!

    Tall Skinny Kiwi 2008

  • I bet Spencer’s the kind of gump that’s got Spice Girl t-shirts.

    Steal The Rhythm While You Can | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • They and helicopter pilots risked their lives on numerous occasions to save our butts and they were heroes in our eyes, but not to manny garcia gump, no sir, he was the only hero in his racist filled eyes, and you people all of you should be ashamed of yourselves for being taken in by this liar and thief of real honor.

    manny garcia 2010

  • I started working up my own button/gump comparison but never got around to finishing it.

    Benjamin Button = Forrest Gump? » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • Ehm, maybe frest gump was kinda based on the book “the curious case of benjamin button” by f. scott fitzgerald …. perhpas ….

    Benjamin Button = Forrest Gump? » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • There are a million boys in our public schools right now swallowing the gump of canal boy to

    CHAPTER X 2010

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  • a complete nitwit.

    January 14, 2008

  • So, do two gomerils make a gump?

    January 15, 2008

  • Fictitious bird from the Oz books.

    "Gumps appear to be common animals in the land of Oz. They are elk-like creatures but with caprine whiskers. Specifically The Gump is actually just the head of one of these creatures mounted on a plaque, with two sofas for a body, palm tree limbs for wings, and a broom for a tail. This was all tied together with clothes line. After his construction, the Gump was brought to life using the Powder of Life. He was later disassembled, at his own request, and remained only a head for the remainder of the series. The Gump is one of two creatures who were once living and then brought back to life by the Powder of Life, the other was a blue bear skin rug owned by a woman named Dinah." - Wikipedia

    February 22, 2011

  • "This Gump resembled an Elk's head, only the nose turned upward in a saucy manner and there were whiskers upon its chin, like those of a billy-goat." - The Marvellous Land of Oz, Frank L. Baum.

    February 22, 2011

  • A plump child, one rather overgrown. A numskull, generally applied to a female.

    June 25, 2011