释义 |
rumgumption Chiefly Sc. and north.|rʌmˈgʌmʃən| [Cf. gumption and rumblegumption.] Common sense.
c1770Beattie To Alex. Ross xv, They need nae try thy jokes to fathom; They want rumgumption. 1785Shirrefs Poems (1790) 321 But sure it wad be gryte presumption, In ane wha has sae sma' rumgumption. 1860Slang Dict. (ed. 2) 203 Rumgumption, or gumption, knowledge, capacity, capability. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 484 There is no excuse, as there is no need, for the corruption rumgumption, common in England. |