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English
Noun
nump (uncountable)
- Alternative form of numps
1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, , published 1613, →OCLC, Act II, signature , recto:Fare-well my prettie Nump, I am verie sorrie / I cannot beare thee companie.
1861 October, Mrs. S. E. Daes, “The Tory Spy. A Story of the Revolution”, in Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, volume XIV, Boston, page 356, column 1:I guess I will go, by hokey—there, Miss Ruth, I forgot I promised you I wouldn't say that ere word again, but it seems as though I couldn't keep from sayin' big words, when I hear what that nump of a Barlett has been doin'.
1954, Alan LeMay, The Searchers, New York: Jove, →ISBN, page 109:"There's plenty others. Like—like Zack Harper. Such a nice clean boy—"
"That nump!