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Definition gumption
Etymology
From Scots gumption (“common sense, shrewdness; drive, initiative”); further etymology unknown, possibly connected with Middle English gome (“attention, heed”), from Old Norse gaumr (“attention, heed”). English cognates include gaum (“to comprehend, understand”) and goam (“to recognize, see”).
Noun
gumption (usually uncountable, plural gumptions)
- (Britain) Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness. [from early 18th c.]
- (US) Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
- (US) Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm.
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