chump
Meaning
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- (colloquial) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
- (colloquial) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
- The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
- (obsolete,slang) A person's head or face.
Synonyms
loggerhead
block of wood
nebbech
lumps of wood
wood brick
timber block
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/t͡ʃʌmp/
Etymology
In summary
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.
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