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adj. - Working hard to promote an enterprise.

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Usage examples (11)
  • "She was always -- not exactly proud like, but what I calls gumptious."
  • "Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is gumptious," said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a Parson.
  • However, as miserable as I was, I was not gumptious and presumptious enough to seek a change in my own life.
  • "In course, sir, all gumptious folks are; they value themselves on their respectability, and looks down on their neighbors."
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