[mass noun](informal)shrewd or spirited initiative and resourcefulness (非正式)精明;机智;首创精神;足智多谋 his new wife had the gumption to put her foot down and head Dan off from those crazy schemes. 他的新妻子精明能干,果断地迫使丹放弃了那些疯狂的计划。
语源
early 18th cent. (originally Scots): of unknown origin