Gumption
Wit to turn things to account, capacity. In Yorkshire we hear
the phrase, “I canna gaum it” (understand it, make it out), and
gaumtion is the capacity of understanding, etc. (Irish, gomsh,
sense, cuteness.)
“Though his eyes were dazzled with the splendour of the place, faith
he had gomsh enough not to let go his hold.” —Dublin and
London Magazine, 1825 (Loughleagh).
Gumption.
A nostrum much in request by painters in search of the supposed
“lost medium” of the old masters, and to which their unapproachable
excellence is ascribed. The medium is made of gum mastic and
linseed-oil.
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