What's the difference between grump and gump?

Grump


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
  • (2) Blunkett is unapologetic: "If you're going to bring about change, you're going to break eggs, and the grump in the staffroom was always going to have one foot in the grave," he says.
  • (3) Look, nobody likes a grump – and a smile costs nothing.
  • (4) Andy darkly gruffing and grumping and breaking off every few minutes to check the Guardian homepage on his iPhone.
  • (5) When Pixar's new animated adventure Brave reaches UK cinemas next week, even grumps like me, who feel the picture falls short of the studio's usual standard , will be cheering in the streets.
  • (6) But those outside the fanbase seemed to throw a collective grump.
  • (7) On he grumped: "There are really serious critics of Vladimir Putin in Russia who deserve our attention much more than these three misguided young feminist rock musicians who have desecrated a cathedral."
  • (8) I learned the diverse regional terms for woodlouse, among them “chuggypig” (Cornwall), “sow-dug” (Essex), “slater” (Northern Ireland), “gramfy-coocher” (Somerset), and “johnny-grump” (Gloucestershire).
  • (9) But I see I am not the only grump: rapper and producer Wiley arrived in the rain and immediately wanted out.
  • (10) By then, I was editing the culture section of Marxism Today and procured an interview with that grump Jean Baudrillard.
  • (11) He's vigorous and passionate, and far from the dour grump he's often portrayed as.
  • (12) Fortunately (and I say this as the kind of grump who hates superlatives) my collaborator is without doubt the greatest pudding cook in the country.
  • (13) "As he'd freely admit he's got a streak of Scots grump to him, but he's brilliant at generating enthusiasm for your ideas.
  • (14) Were it not for José Mourinho, the Manchester United manager would be out on his own in the Premier League and the most reliable way to give Mr Grump a bit more hump is to ask him about his relationship with Ronald Koeman.
  • (15) He's Bruce Willis basking in the afterglow of Moonlighting , before he was curdled into a reluctant grump by the prospect of spending his entire life promoting second-rate sequels .

Gump


Definition:

  • (n.) A dolt; a dunce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1995, a year after his novel Forrest Gump had been sanitised for the screen, Winston Groom published Gump and Co , a sequel, which began with: "Let me say this: Everybody makes mistakes ...
  • (2) That might sometimes be true – Forrest Gump , I'm looking at you – but there's also a difference in the way a film is consumed.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The film team review Jurassic World At Bubba Gump, he recognised a customer: Rae Dawn Chong, an actor who had appeared in 80s hits Commando and The Color Purple.
  • (4) In the oral cavity, a "flail" mandible, an "Andy Gump" deformity, and a sublingual hematoma may occur.
  • (5) It paid $400,000 over the past year to a Washington lobby group, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, to work on Capitol Hill to work for the removal of the MEK from the list of foreign terrorist organisations.
  • (6) In an interview with CNBC, Ma said he believed that his customers and employees should come before shareholders, but added: “I am very honoured and so excited … the responsibility I’ve been thinking about the next five to 10 years is: how can I make sure these shareholders are happy?” Ma told CNBC that he had got the idea for his business when he visited the US, and looks to Forrest Gump for inspiration.
  • (7) July 12, 2015 Pop culture mashups And in that last recourse for the commentator searching desperately for a joke, the internet opened the pop culture vault and hastily cut up everything from Forrest Gump – “ run, Chapo, run ” – to Frozen – “ I’m free, I’m free!
  • (8) Are you stupid, Mr Gruber?” the committee chairman Darryl Issa asked Jonathan Gruber, before comparing the professor to the film character Forrest Gump.
  • (9) Not even seven Oscar nominations could help it compete with the success of hits such as Speed, Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump.
  • (10) As a youth he dabbled in stand-up comedy and did a spot of stripping (once for a friend’s grandmother) before – at the age of 19 – moving to Maui for a year, living in a van and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
  • (11) Gump n Hell gave it an Indonesian spin, featuring Piko Taro using an apple and a banana to create the shape of the communist icon, the hammer and sickle.
  • (12) The major finding in these patients was rib resorption and deteriorating cosmetic appearance and development of "Andy Gump" deformity.
  • (13) We will hope for our best but it is like Forrest Gump and his box of chocolates.
  • (14) And he was, at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company franchise in Hawaii, by actor Rae Dawn Chong, which at least has the ring of Lana Turner at the counter of Schwab’s Pharmacy.
  • (15) The end result was a consensus that, like Forrest Gump, Slahi popped up around significant events by coincidence, not design.
  • (16) Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more “I’m a little bit like Forrest Gump, like this,” Flores says, miming the style of the movie character and laughing loudly.
  • (17) Boundary-pushing satire, in the form of comics such as Gump n Hell , are also starting to emerge.
  • (18) Alibaba was founded by Jack Ma, a former English teacher who counts Forrest Gump as his inspiration.
  • (19) Even though Hanks achieved his greatest career success appearing in dramas in the 90s, such as Apollo 13 and winning his Oscars for (in typical Oscars style) his two worst films, Philadelphia and Forrest Gump , as well as appearing in romcoms ( Sleepless in Seattle , You've Got Mail ) written and directed by Nora Ephron ("She was a taskmaster, but gentle – I wish I was making a movie with Nora tomorrow"), I personally will always have a soft spot for his 80s comedic performances.
  • (20) Our techniques in reconstruction of the oral cavity, hypopharynx, esophagus, nose, Andy-Gump deformities (anterior jaw complex resection), pharyngo-orocutaneous fistulas, and radionecrosis of the mandible are presented.

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