Lexicographical Neighbors of Gumping
Literary usage of Gumping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tales and Sketches by James Hogg (1837)
"As they were going from one of these little pools to another, he said to our
shepherd, " So this is what you call gumping t" Yes, sir, ..."
2. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"gumping—A piece cut off the gump, or whole of any thing ; when a ... of thai rigg
uncut, between them and the weak reaper; this piece is called the gumping. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"Two cronies, or a lad and lass in love, never cut the gumping on one another."
Ibid. Had not Gump been expL " the whole of any thing. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"GUMP, GUMPH, to touch and feel gently, as in the attempt to catch fish by the
hand ; as boys gumping under stones in a burn for trout. ..."
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