chump

Significat (anglès)

1. (colloquial) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
2. (colloquial) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
3. The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
4. (obsolete,slang) A person's head or face.

fool

sucker

loggerhead

block of wood

nebbech

lumps of wood

wood brick

timber block

Freqüència

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/t͡ʃʌmp/

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.