chump.
An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
Meaning & usage
An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
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.
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
A person's head or face.
Where this word comes from
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.
To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).
Where this word comes from
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.
Dated form of chomp.
Where this word comes from
Variant of chomp, itself a variant of champ (“to bite”). More at champ.
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