English Explanatory Dictionary

chump

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
  2. 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. A person's head or face.
verb
  1. To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).
verb
  1. Dated form of chomp.

Pronunciation

/t͡ʃʌmp/ en-us-chump.ogg

Word forms

chump chumps chumping chumped

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.

Synonyms

blockhead idiot dope dolt dunce dummy gull sucker dupe sap patsy pigeon chump off

Derived words

average frustrated chump chump-block chump block chump blocker chump change chump-change chump chop chumpette chumpion chumpish chumpy off one's chump one pump chump

Translations

Czech: trouba Czech: trdlo Finnish: typerys Finnish: tollo French: abruti French: abrutie French: idiot French: idiote French: andouille French: âne French: imbécile German: Dummkopf German: Trottel Hungarian: bunkó Hungarian: tökfej Hungarian: lúzer Italian: fesso Italian: fessa Italian: allocco Italian: allocca Italian: balordo Italian: balorda Italian: grullo Italian: grulla Italian: ottuso Italian: ottusa Latin: asinus Macedonian: глу́пак Polish: matoł Russian: дура́к Spanish: paquete Turkish: salak Turkish: mal Turkish: ahmak
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