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off one's chump

prep_phrase

Etymology

See chump (“the head”), and compare off one's head.

Definitions

  1. Crazy, insane.

    • “Ay, sure ’ave ur; and wot the devil I be to do agin that there Snooks, as ’ll lie through a brick wall, I beant able to say. I be pooty nigh off my chump wot wi’ one thing and another.”
    • 1888, Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne), A Sydney-Side Saxon, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607291, ‘ […] I′m not off my chump, no more than you are, and I haven't smelt spirits since last Christmas.’

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