chump

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chump¹

(chŭmp)

1. A gullible person; a dupe.

2. A stupid or foolish person; a dolt.

[Perhaps blend of chunk and lump or stump.]

chump²

(chŭmp)

tr. & intr.v. chumped, chump·ing, chumps

To chew or make a chewing movement.

[Variant of champ.]

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chump

(tʃʌmp)

1. informal a stupid person

2. a thick heavy block of wood

a. the thick blunt end of anything, esp of a piece of meat

b. (as modifier): a chump chop.

4. slang Brit the head (esp in the phrase off one's chump)

[C18: perhaps a blend of chunk and lump¹]

chump

(tʃʌmp)

a less common word for chomp

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chump

(tʃʌmp)

n.

1. Informal. a foolish or gullible person.

2. a short, thick piece of wood.

3. Brit. the head.

Idioms:

off one's chump, Brit. crazy.

[1695–1705; perhaps b. chunk¹ and lump¹]

chump

Past participle: chumped
Gerund: chumping

Imperative
chump
chump

Present
I chump
you chump
he/she/it chumps
we chump
you chump
they chump

Preterite
I chumped
you chumped
he/she/it chumped
we chumped
you chumped
they chumped

Present Continuous
I am chumping
you are chumping
he/she/it is chumping
we are chumping
you are chumping
they are chumping

Present Perfect
I have chumped
you have chumped
he/she/it has chumped
we have chumped
you have chumped
they have chumped

Past Continuous
I was chumping
you were chumping
he/she/it was chumping
we were chumping
you were chumping
they were chumping

Past Perfect
I had chumped
you had chumped
he/she/it had chumped
we had chumped
you had chumped
they had chumped

Future
I will chump
you will chump
he/she/it will chump
we will chump
you will chump
they will chump

Future Perfect
I will have chumped
you will have chumped
he/she/it will have chumped
we will have chumped
you will have chumped
they will have chumped

Future Continuous
I will be chumping
you will be chumping
he/she/it will be chumping
we will be chumping
you will be chumping
they will be chumping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been chumping
you have been chumping
he/she/it has been chumping
we have been chumping
you have been chumping
they have been chumping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been chumping
you will have been chumping
he/she/it will have been chumping
we will have been chumping
you will have been chumping
they will have been chumping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been chumping
you had been chumping
he/she/it had been chumping
we had been chumping
you had been chumping
they had been chumping

Conditional
I would chump
you would chump
he/she/it would chump
we would chump
you would chump
they would chump

Past Conditional
I would have chumped
you would have chumped
he/she/it would have chumped
we would have chumped
you would have chumped
they would have chumped

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Noun

chump - a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

fall guy, gull, patsy, soft touch, sucker, mug, fool, mark

dupe, victim - a person who is tricked or swindled

chump¹

noun

A mentally dull person:

blockhead, clod, dolt, dullard, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, numskull, thickhead.

Slang: dimwit, dumbbell, dumbo.

chump²

verb

To bite and grind with the teeth:

champ, chew, chomp, crump, crunch, masticate, munch.

Regional: chaw.

Translations

allocco grosso taglio

chump

[tʃʌmp]

A. N

1. (= idiot) → tonto/a m/f
you chump! → ¡imbécil!

2. (= head) → cabeza f
to be off one's chump → estar chiflado

B. CPD chump chop N (Brit) chuleta gruesa con hueso

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

chump

[ˈtʃʌmp] n → imbécile mf, crétin(e) m/f

chump

(inf) → Trottel m, → dummes Stück, Hornochse m (inf)

he’s off his chump (Brit inf) → der hat ’ne Meise (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

chump

[tʃʌmp] n (fam) → zuccone/a

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"I met a chump deh odder day way up in deh city," he said.

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What it came to was that the doctor was a chump and a blighter.

Yes, that was it, the doctor was a chump. So far from doing him any harm, these nightly potations brightened Nutty up, gave him heart, and enabled him to endure life in this hole of a place.

This was what that doctor--not such a chump after all--must have meant!

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Kreis paused long enough in the midst of his exposition to tell him that in most of his "Shame of the Sun" he had been a chump.

"No, I'm not chump enough for that, at any rate," Martin answered.

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"Here's a two-dollar-and-a-half chump with a thirty- dollar style.

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Jack Pumpkinhead's a dear old chum who might be called a chump,

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"You are a chump!" said Harvey, amused in spite of himself.

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And now, as he paced the promenade, watching the stir and bustle of the crowd, he definitely condemned his absent relative as a narrow-minded chump.