Gumptious

However, as miserable as I was, I was not gumptious and presumptious enough to seek a change in my own life. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Gumption is knowing; but when I say that sum un is gumptious, I mean -- though that's more vulgar like -- sum un who does not think small beer of hisself. ❋ Various (N/A)

"In course, sir, all gumptious folks are; they value themselves on their respectability, and looks down on their neighbors." ❋ Various (N/A)

"She was always -- not exactly proud like, but what I calls gumptious." ❋ Various (N/A)

"Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is gumptious," said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a Parson. ❋ Various (N/A)

"In course, sir, all gumptious folks are; they value themselves on their respectability, and looks down on their neighbours." ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

"Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is Bumptious," said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a parson. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Gumption is knowing; but when I say that sum 'un is gumptious, I mean -- though that's more vulgar like -- sum' un who does not think small beer of hisself. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

If you’re feeling particularly gumptious you could even make a double batch of sauce, because let’s face it, homemade sauce store-bought sauce. ❋ Unknown (2008)

_Landlord_, (doggedly.) -- "There's gumption and gumptious! ❋ Various (N/A)

Irishmen in the land would be a marvellous gumptious charge and great difficulty. " ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)

Goes down sessions to see that they don't get too gumptious and kick off the swaddlin 'clothes. " ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

The two-person cast includes Aaron Landsman and Jenny Seastone Stern, who inhabit the play in which "a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Those [cookies] were very [gumptious]” or “You look very gumptious [today]” ❋ Riverthedoge (2022)

"Oh yeah, that girl you were with at [the club]. [Sorry mate], but she's pretty fucking [gumptious]" ❋ Onionsmeller (2023)

Yo, this [chicken] [came] out [gumptious]! ❋ Offaim (2020)