g 2 u 1 m 3 p 3 t 1 i 1 o 1 n 1
8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun sound practical judgment
noun fortitude and determination
originBorrowed from Scots gumption (“common sense, shrewdness; drive, initiative”); further etymology unknown, possibly connected with Middle English gome (“attention, heed”), from Old Norse gaumr (“attention, heed”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō. English cognates include gaum (“to comprehend, understand”) and goam (“to recognize, see”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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