GUM. A trick; a deception. In use at Dartmouth College.
Gum is another word they have here. It means something like chaw. To say, "It's all a gum," or "a regular chaw," is the same thing.—The Dartmouth, Vol. IV. p. 117.
GUM. At the University of Vermont, to cheat in recitation by using ponies, interliners, &c.; e.g. "he gummed in geometry."
2. To cheat; to deceive. Not confined to college.
He was speaking of the "moon hoax" which "gummed" so many learned philosophers.—Yale Lit. Mag., Vol. XIV. p. 189.
GUMMATION. A trick; raillery.
Our reception to college ground was by no means the most hospitable, considering our unacquaintance with the manners of the place, for, as poor "Fresh," we soon found ourselves subject to all manner of sly tricks and "gummations" from our predecessors, the Sophs.—A Tour through College, Boston, 1832, p. 13.
GYP. A cant term for a servant at Cambridge, England, at scout is used at Oxford. Said to be a sportive application of [Greek: gyps], a vulture.—Smart.
The word Gyp very properly characterizes them.—Gradus ad
Cantab., p. 56.
And many a yawning gyp comes slipshod in,
To wake his master ere the bells begin.
The College, in Blackwood's Mag., May, 1849.