Also gesumph or gesumpf, said to have come into the British property business from the second-hand
car trade in the 1970s. originally means to swindle, cheat or steal, now means to outbid (peculiar to the
English and Welsh housing market). Ultimately derived from a German word meaning to put into a swamp or, in the modern idiom, to dump in the shit. first recorded in
English in 1928