Word of the Day: RUMGUMPTIOUS


ETYMOLOGY
from rumgumption (good sense, shrewdness)


EXAMPLE
“…who’d have thought of that?–he’s a turning rumgumtious, and no mistake. Howsomdever, I must turn it over in my mind, and be even with him, somehow–I owes him one for that. I say, admiral…”

From: Varney the Vampire
By Thomas Peckett Prest, 1847

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