Chump

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ÊŒmp

Origin

Compare Icelandic kumbr a chopping, English chop.

Full definition of chump

Noun

1. (colloquial, pejorative) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
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.
• 2012, August 5, Nathan Rabin, TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993), 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.
• DickensShaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump-end of something.

Synonyms

• (an unintelligent person) blockhead, idiot, dope, dolt, dunce, dummy
• (a gullible person) gull, sucker, dupe, sap, dummy; pushover, patsy; mark, pigeon, sucker; fool, dummy

Derived terms

• chump change
• chump chop
• off one's chump