gumptious

adj

1. (colloquial)Having gumption.

   “Every reader has a right to know his authour’s motives for publishing at all, to be brought acquainted with his means of performance and his eligibility for the task; and the latter having likewise his rights to assert, this mutuality begets the undisputed custom of preface—the more gumptious the better.”

   “I tell you what it is, aunt, or mamma — which ever you choose to be called — that spoilt pet of yours has become so exceedingly gumptious since her promotion as Lady Beauchamp, that she rules the whole roost — will have her own way in everything”

   “A cow that will produce from sixty dollars' to eighty dollars' worth of butter-fat in the year does not need to raise a gumptious calf that would meet the needs of the beef man.”

   “Goat Lymph means, in non-scientific terms, Extract of Goat. It is the active bezumistic principle of the happy hircus and is estimated to be at least 400 per cent, stronger than the gumption of the most gumptious human. No other animal equals the goat in point of what scientists call "ambish."”