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Chump
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- 1 An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. colloquial, derogatory
"That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground."
- 2 a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of wordnet
- 3 A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense. colloquial, derogatory
"It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump."
- 4 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."
- 5 A person's head or face. UK, obsolete, slang
- 1 To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone). slang, transitive
- 2 Dated form of chomp. alt-of, dated
"At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy."
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.
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.
Variant of chomp, itself a variant of champ (“to bite”). More at champ.
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