Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsS5cAAD3i3oL3WJ9H" data-dat="c1620"><td class="date"><time><i>c.</i>1620</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Fletcher</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7914">Women Pleased</a></ce> IV iii: I shall pump ye anon Sir.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsS7oAAD3i3oPEiB5C" data-dat="1633"><td class="date"><time>1633</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Jonson</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2147">Tale of a Tub</a></ce> IV iii: I’ll stand asi whilst thou pump’st out of him His bs.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsS9gAAD3i3oTlpM6b" data-dat="1665"><td class="date"><time>1665</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[Ire]" tle="Ireland"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Head</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8448">Eng. Rogue</a></ce> 41: This servent enavoured to pump out of the Proponent what he me about.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsS_QAAD3i3oXFA08F" data-dat="1667"><td class="date"><time>1667</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Lacey</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2324">Sny the St</a></ce> II i: You may pump long enough er’e you get out a wise Word.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTBAAAD3i3oZlSH1N" data-dat="1668"><td class="date"><time>1668</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Dryn</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7612">An Eveng’s Love</a></ce> Act III: <i>Maskall</i>, pump the Woman; and see if you n disver anythg to save my Cred.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTCwAAD3i3ocSrgCQ" data-dat="1678"><td class="date"><time>1678</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">S. Butler</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5375">Hudibras</a></ce> Pt II nto 3 l 489–92: Look yonr, some / To try or e our art are e: / The one’s the learned knight; seek out, / And pump ’em what they e about.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTEgAAD3i3oimj9JD" data-dat="1682"><td class="date"><time>1682</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Otway</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/414">Venice Prerv’d</a></ce> II i: Pump me not for polics. No more!</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTGQAAD3i3onEJjWx" data-dat="1693"><td class="date"><time>1693</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Congreve</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7228">Old Bachelor</a></ce> V i: She was pumpg me about how your worship’s affairs stood towards Madam Aramta.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTIAAAD3i3opZan_h" data-dat="1700"><td class="date"><time>1700</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">N. Ward</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4673">London Spy</a></ce> XVII 443: Old Practicers the Noble Art of pump and Wheedle.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTJwAAD3i3ot9up-V" data-dat="1707"><td class="date"><time>1707</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Farquhar</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7822">Bex’ Strategem</a></ce> II ii: We’ll ll him out and pump him a ltle.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTLgAAD3i3oynfPJ4" data-dat="1727"><td class="date"><time>1727</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Gay</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8061">Beggar’s Opera</a></ce> III ix: By pourg Strong-Waters down my Throat, she thks to pump some Secrets out of me.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTNMAAD3i3o0wbHaJ" data-dat="1776 1759 1737 1760"><td class="date"><time>1737</time>, <time>1759</time>, <time>1760</time>, <time>1776</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Bailey</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6401">Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.</a></ce> n.p.: <i>Pump</i> to wheedle Secrets out of any one. Pumpt dry, not a Word left to say.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTO8AAD3i3o6vcg8X" data-dat="1740"><td class="date"><time>1740</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/6109">Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid</a></ce> I : My own Mother set me on to pump thee, about what past between you two.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTQoAAD3i3o8WN8fq" data-dat="1749"><td class="date"><time>1749</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Fieldg</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5238">Tom Jon</a></ce> (1959) 369: She therefore orred her maid to pump out of him by what means he had bee acquated wh her person.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTSYAAD3i3pA4NjYx" data-dat="1764"><td class="date"><time>1764</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Foote</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7937">Lyar</a></ce> <ce><a href="/sourc/5603">Works</a></ce> (1799) I 287: I mt know who this girl is [...] uld not you ntrive to pump out of her footman [...] the name of his mistrs?</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTUIAAD3i3pGysl1O" data-dat="1767"><td class="date"><time>1767</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Andrew Barton’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6491">Disappotment</a></ce> II iv: But tell , Moll, how the vil did you pump out of him?</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTV0AAD3i3pIGFIdd" data-dat="1788 1785 1796"><td class="date"><time>1785</time>, <time>1788</time>, <time>1796</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Grose</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8269">Classil Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue</a></ce> n.p.: <span class="sc">Pump</span> [...] To pump; to enavour to draw a secret om any one whout his perceivg . Your pump is good, but your sucker is dry; said by one to a person who is attemptg to pump him.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTXkAAD3i3pN2Hov1" data-dat="1809"><td class="date"><time>1809</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G. Andrew</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6055">Dict. Sl. and Cant</a></ce>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTZUAAD3i3pT414B1" data-dat="1811"><td class="date"><time>1811</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Poole</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3497">Hamlet Travtie</a></ce> I vi: You mt pump him: If he won’t tell by fair means—why then—thump him.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTbEAAD3i3pXopClT" data-dat="c1815"><td class="date"><time><i>c.</i>1815</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J.K. Pldg</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3363">Bucktails</a></ce> (1847) IV iii: I’ll pump Paddy Whack the next time we meet – I will, by gum.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTcwAAD3i3pYsCmKh" data-dat="1828"><td class="date"><time>1828</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘A Flat Enlightened’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/10935">Life the Wt</a></ce> II 29: Harry.— ‘Your good health [...] Are you heavy upon the fight, sir?’ Harry was upon the ‘pumpg orr’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTegAAD3i3pdCscwZ" data-dat="1830"><td class="date"><time>1830</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/8541">Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard</a></ce> (NY) 26 June 4/2: ‘By Gob! here the Colonel, we’ll pump him!’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTgQAAD3i3piIvQhx" data-dat="a1837"><td class="date"><time>1836–7</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Dickens</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7538">Pickwick Papers</a></ce> (1999) 216: Unrgog the procs of beg pumped.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTh8AAD3i3pmw6Oyl" data-dat="1843"><td class="date"><time>1843</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">T. Haliburton</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8302">Sam Slick England</a></ce> I 139: They will be a-pump’ me for everlastly, will the great men here, and they thk a plaguy sight more of our opn than you are aware on.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTjsAAD3i3pp3p0Hy" data-dat="1848"><td class="date"><time>1848</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/10185">Pl Pry</a></ce> 11 Dec. n.p.: The proprietor is a "cunng rd," and ‘pumps’ his new ctomers, by askg sundry qutns about horse-racg, &c.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTlYAAD3i3pt4bdqK" data-dat="1850"><td class="date"><time>1850</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1843) <span class="thor">Melville</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2885">Whe-Jacket</a></ce> (1990) 186: Observg the fellow to be an agony of fear at the sight of the boatswa’s mat and their lash, [...] the pta mt have thought this a good opportuny for pletely pumpg him of all his secret.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTnEAAD3i3pw65XQ9" data-dat="1858"><td class="date"><time>1858</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R.S. Surte</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4309">Ask Mamma</a></ce> 279: Fdg the ast clear they now [...] took to pumpg Billy as to his nnectn wh the hoe.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTo0AAD3i3p1y-XO6" data-dat="1861"><td class="date"><time>1861</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">T. Hugh</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2000">Tom Brown at Oxford</a></ce> (1880) 52: You should have told me so before you began to pump me.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTqgAAD3i3p5h3klE" data-dat="1872"><td class="date"><time>1872</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Mark Twa’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4544">Roughg It</a></ce> 67: The mute the boys go to pumpg at Eckert [...] he shuts up his shell.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTsQAAD3i3p_Bgm85" data-dat="1879"><td class="date"><time>1879</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"> ‘’Arry on the Road’ <ce><a href="/sourc/2777">Punch</a></ce> 9 Aug. 83/1: It isn’t for nothg, old chump, / As I ’se parted so ee to the Coachi, and artfully put on the pump.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTt8AAD3i3qBt6L7n" data-dat="1881"><td class="date"><time>1881</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/6873">Bullet</a></ce> (Sydney) 12 Mar. 9/3: Poor Mr is beg pumped upon wh a fearful vengeance.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTvsAAD3i3qG4BE2A" data-dat="1882"><td class="date"><time>1882</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[St]" tle="Stland"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/993">Dune Courier</a></ce> (St.) 29 Sept. 7/4: Paddy tried to pump Dr Mackenzie’s billboy, but the latter was not to be pumped.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTxYAAD3i3qKQdX76" data-dat="1887"><td class="date"><time>1887</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"> ‘’Arry the Wns-Box’ <ce><a href="/sourc/2777">Punch</a></ce> 5 Feb. 61/2: The platiff [...] seemed to go slap orf ’is chump / And leaked orkurd facts like a sieve when the Counsel jt put on the pump.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsTzIAAD3i3qNuDLAV" data-dat="1894"><td class="date"><time>1894</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/4522">Tth</a></ce> (Sydney) 14 Jan. 6/6: I thk mt have been the whiskey that ma him open the secrets of his heart to me. I certaly pumped him.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsT00AAD3i3qQWPrns" data-dat="1899"><td class="date"><time>1899</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">E.W. Hornung</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/1958">Amatr Cracksman</a></ce> (1992) 64: I had been able, the most ordary urse, to pump poor Ewbank about anythg and everythg nnected wh the workg of the bank.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsT2kAAD3i3qXfBENn" data-dat="1909"><td class="date"><time>1909</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">H. Lawson</span> ‘The Song of What Do You Thk’ Rorick (1967–9 II) 283: They wheedle to ckle and pump to spout, and they read on the cheap to wre.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsT4QAAD3i3qbgMLZJ" data-dat="1917"><td class="date"><time>1917</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">F. Packard</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3322">Adventur of Jimmie Dale</a></ce> 33: Well, by pumpg Moriarty, he admted that Metzer had had a visor about an hour after I left.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsT6AAAD3i3qeieYHO" data-dat="1925"><td class="date"><time>1925</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">N. Lus</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2554">Autobg. of a Thief</a></ce> 37: Unr my skilful ‘pumpg’ he told me all about himself.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsT7sAAD3i3qjwsqeA" data-dat="1937"><td class="date"><time>1937</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">E. Anrson</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6040">Thiev Like Us</a></ce> (1999) 134: Some Law got to pumpg him and he [...] let out that kd of a squawk.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsT9cAAD3i3qm19mjJ" data-dat="1948"><td class="date"><time>1948</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1944) <span class="thor">N. Mailer</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2725">Naked and Dead</a></ce> 552: She always giggl when I try to pump her.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsT_IAAD3i3qrY7Xh3" data-dat="1953"><td class="date"><time>1953</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">F. Brown</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/11089">Madball</a></ce> (2019) 32: ‘[Y]ou’ve pumped me to dog more talkg than you have’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsUA4AAD3i3qvYCAho" data-dat="1958"><td class="date"><time>1958</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">A. Silloe</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4074">Sat. Night and Sun. Morng</a></ce> 60: Now he had to pump Aunt Ada and fd out how to empty the tub.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsUCkAAD3i3qyfNYDN" data-dat="1968"><td class="date"><time>1968</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">N. Heard</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/1752">Howard Street</a></ce> 154: Thkg he was a p tryg to pump Jackie about who was dog what.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsUEUAAD3i3q1HaVbu" data-dat="1977"><td class="date"><time>1977</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1949) <span class="thor">J.G. Dunne</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7661">Te Confsns</a></ce> (1979) 159: Pumpg me [...] like I’m some sort of harp booby.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsUGAAAD3i3q6jgpYm" data-dat="1985"><td class="date"><time>1985</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Sullivan</span> ‘To Hull and Back’ <ce><a href="/sourc/4297">Only Fools and Hors</a></ce> [TV script] He don’t know who the urier is, that’s what he was pumpg me about.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsUHwAAD3i3q-06BJ0" data-dat="1998"><td class="date"><time>1998</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[St]" tle="Stland"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">I. Welsh</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4739">Filth</a></ce> 192: I’ve pumped the sorry cunt for more rmatn about Bunty’s mental state.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsUJcAAD3i3rDNxhE6" data-dat="2001"><td class="date"><time>2001</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1964–8) <span class="thor">J. Ellroy</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7764">Cold Six Thoand</a></ce> 376: Barb saw him pump Jimmy.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuVNsULMAAD3i3rHPb-J8" data-dat="2016"><td class="date"><time>2016</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">D. Whish-Wilson</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/10486">Old Sr</a></ce> [ebook] Swann was asked to stick around and pump the journos.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn2"><span class="senseno">2. </span>to duck someone unr the <i>pump</i>, as a punishment.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns.