chump

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /t͡ʃʌmp/ Rhymes: -ʌmp === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Noun ==== chump (plural chumps) (colloquial, derogatory) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. 2015, chief justice John G. Roberts, dissenting in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission et al., June 29 2015 What chumps! Didn’t they realize that all they had to do was interpret the constitutional term “the Legislature” to mean “the people”? (colloquial, derogatory) 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. (UK, slang, obsolete) A person's head or face. ===== Synonyms ===== (an unintelligent person): blockhead, idiot, dope, dolt, dunce, dummy (a gullible person): gull, sucker, dupe, sap, dummy, patsy, pigeon See also Thesaurus:dupe ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== References ===== (head or face): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary ==== Verb ==== chump (third-person singular simple present chumps, present participle chumping, simple past and past participle chumped) (slang, transitive) To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone). Synonym: chump off === Etymology 2 === Variant of chomp, itself a variant of champ (“to bite”). More at champ. ==== Verb ==== chump (third-person singular simple present chumps, present participle chumping, simple past and past participle chumped) Dated form of chomp.