gubmint

plural gubmints · alternative gub'mint · alternative gummint

1. countablenonstandardpronunciation spellinguncountablePronunciation spelling of government, representing dialectal English.

   Seems like half the gubmint bureaucrats and snake oil politicians want to help us.

   2007, Monica Davis, Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future in Black America, page 155

   2 more examples

   "Good luck corroboree, make him big fat one, all same Gubmint fella," old Rosie, his "aunt by skin" told me earnestly.

   1942, Ernestine Hill, Australian Frontier, page 98

   [H]e understood that his musings about onomatopoeia and sympathetic response gave the gubmint boys far too much credit.

   2005, Jeff Hull, Pale Morning Done: A Novel, page 144