chump
SubstantivVerbVerbin Dialogen belegt
- //t͡ʃʌmp//
An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
Substantiv
- 1
An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
What chumps! Didn’t they realize that all they had to do was interpret the constitutional term “the Legislature” to mean “the people”?
- 2
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.
Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams.
- 3
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump-end of something.
- 4
veraltetA person's head or face.
Herkunft
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.
Verb
- 1
SlangTo treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).
Verb
- 1
Variante von chompveraltendDated form of chomp.
At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy.
Herkunft
Variant of chomp, itself a variant of champ (“to bite”). More at champ.
Formen
- Plural
- chumps
- Präteritum
- chumped
- Partizip II
- chumped
- Partizip I
- chumping
- 3. Person Singular
- chumps
chump · An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
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