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gumption colloq.|ˈgʌm(p)ʃən|
Also gumshion.
[Orig. Sc.; cf. rum-, rumble-gumption.]
1. Common sense, mother wit, shrewdness. Also, initiative, enterprise, ‘drive’.
1719Ramsay Fam. Epist. ii. 52 'Tis sma presumption To say they're but unlearned clarks, And want the gumption. 1785in Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue. 1786Andrews in Europ. Mag. IX. 210 Why this here fellow here, who writes that there, Has no more gumption than my founder'd mare. c1812Sir C. Napier in W. N. Bruce Life ii. (1885) 76 It is..rapid movement that gives cavalry value, the application of which requires gumption in the commander. 1817Lamb Lett. (1888) II. 2 There'd be many a damn let Fly At my presumption, If I should try, Being a fellow of no gumption. 1819J. Lawrence in Monthly Mag. XLVII. 312 A dangerous farrago of holy gumshion. 1825J. T. Brockett Gloss. N. Country Words 87 Gumshon, gumption, common sense, combined with energy. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. ix, One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated. 1844J. Slick High Life N.Y. II. 134 Sez she, ‘Jonathan, what du you mean?’ My heart riz, it was the only sign of gumption she had made for a hull day. 1862C. F. Browne A. Ward his Book 213, I like..your enterprise, gumpshun, [etc.]. 1889‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xvii, If they..show pluck and gumption they..get promoted. 1903M. E. Freeman Six Trees 193 Ain't you got any gumption, no snap at all? 1941J. Street In my Father's House ix. 170 Me and Papa and Mama kissed Teenie and then she just stood there looking at Woodie. Papa said, ‘Buss her one, boy. Ain't you got no gumption?’
2. Painting.
a. (See quot. 1825.) ? Obs.
b. A vehicle for colour.
1813Scott Trierm. ii. 2 Interlude, This thicket, for their gumption fit, May furnish such a happy bit. 1825Jamieson Suppl. s.v. Gumption, In a note on this article, Sir W. Scott remarks, that ‘painters call the art of preparing colours their gumption’.
b.1854Fairholt Dict. Art, Gumption, this elegant and expressive name is applied to a nostrum much in request by painters in search of the supposed ‘lost medium’ of the old masters..The formula for preparing this medium gives a mixture of drying linseed oil and mastic varnish, which gelatinises; or simple linseed oil and sugar of lead. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 205 They [various vehicles] are called ‘Meguilps’ from their inventor; one variety receives the name of ‘Gumtion’.
Hence ˈgumptionless a., without gumption, senseless.
1823Galt Entail xxii. 78 Come awa, ye gumshionless cuif. 1861R. Quin Heather Lintie (1866) 147 Gumptionless whinings. |