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chump

noun
/t͡ʃʌmp/

Etymology

Origin uncertain; probably a blend of chunk and lump or stump, or perhaps a nasalised variant of chub (“someone chubby, something thick”). Compare Icelandic kubbur (“block of wood, chip (computing)”), Old Norse kumbr for kubbr (“block of wood”), English chop.

  1. derived from chop

Definitions

  1. An incompetent person, a blockhead

    An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

    • That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
    • What chumps! Didn’t they realize that all they had to do was interpret the constitutional term “the Legislature” to mean “the people”?

  2. A gullible person

    A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.

    • It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump.

  3. The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.

    • Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump-end of something.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A person's head or face.

    2. To treat (someone) as a chump

      To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).

    3. Dated form of chomp.

      • At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy.

The neighborhood

  • synonymblockheadan unintelligent person
  • synonymidiotan unintelligent person
  • synonymdopean unintelligent person
  • synonymdoltan unintelligent person
  • synonymduncean unintelligent person
  • synonymdummyan unintelligent person

Derived

average frustrated chump, chump-block, chump block, chump blocker, chump change, chump-change, chump chop, chumpette, chumpion, chumpish, chumpy, off one's chump, one pump chump

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chump. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA