Chump

Definition: Chump

Chump

Noun

1. A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "chump" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Etymology: Chump \Chump\, noun. [Compare to Icelandic kumbr chopping, English chop.]. (references)

19th Century Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Chump

Crosswords: Chump

What do you think you're calling me chump for, chimp (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

Parting is such sweet sorrow chump! (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn)

There's no percentage in smartenin' up a chump. (The Set-Up; writing credit: Art Cohn; Joseph Moncure March)

Well, I guess hard times flush the chump. Everybody's lookin' for answersWhere the hell's he goin' (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

Chump don't want no hep, Chump don't get de hep. Jive ass fool ain't got no brains anyhow (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)

So when the sucker MCs try to chump my style ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

Chinatown Chump (1951)

The Chump Champ (1950)

Skip and a Chump Hop (1942)

Meet the Chump (1941)

A Chump at Oxford (1940)

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Books

• Chump Change (reference)

• Don't Be a Chump! (reference)

• Don't Be a Chump!: Negotiating Skills You Need (Princeton Review) (reference)

• Hail to the Chump (Misadventures of Willie Plummet, 9) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Chump at Oxford (reference)

• Chump at Oxford (reference)

• Microchip Chump (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 1st Class Chump (reference)

• Chump Lessons (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "chump": Chump end ♦ go off one's chump ♦ he is an absolute chump ♦ he is off his chump ♦ off one's chump. Additional references.

Albanian

përçap (chew, masticate), kërcu (log), gdhë (bonehead, dolt, duffer, dunce, dunderhead, knot, knur, knurr, muggins, sang, wooden, yokel), filetë (fillet, tenderloin). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чукан (chunk), глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, compartment, conk, crumpet, head, knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, poll, sconce, topknot), будала (dupe, juggins), дебело парче месо, дебелият край на нещо (butt). (various references)

Chinese 

笨蛋. (various references)

Czech

vùl (Bullock, jerk, ox), pitomec (bonehead, clown, dope, idiot, imbecile, jackass, ninny, nitwit, twit), hlupák (ass, blockhead, booby, dolt, dotterel, dottrel, dunce, dupe, fool, gaby, half wit, idiot, ignoramus, jobbernowl, leather-head, loggerhead, pudding-head, sap-head, simpleton, thick-head, tomfool), špalek (block, chock, log, stock, wedge). (various references)

Danish

tykke ende af lændestykke (chump end of loin). (various references)

Farsi 

کنده (Bloc, Block, Stock, Stub, Timber), تکه بزرگ (Hunk). (various references)

Finnish

lampaanviulu ilman potkaa (lamb leg chump off, lamb leg sirloin off, lamb short leg), lampaanviulu (lamb full leg, lamb leg chump on, lamb leg sirloin on). (various references)

French

ballot. (various references)

German

dummkopf (ass, blockhead, bonehead, booby, dimwit, dullard, dunce, fool, goose, half wit, idiot, imbecile, jackass, loggerhead, meathead, nit, nitwit, pinhead, thick, thickhead, thick-head), Klotz (block, brick, chunk, chunk of wood, clod, hulk, log, lump, pad). (various references)

Greek 

κούτσουρο (dunce, log, stump), βλάκασ (booby, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany), μπούφοσ (booby, gawk, sideboard). (various references)

Hungarian

tuskó (butt, clump, log, nerd, nurd, stock, stub, stump, trunk, yob), tömb (block, pad, pat, slug). (various references)

Indonesian

bebal (dumb, silly), balok (balk, beam, block, briquet, cross bar). (various references)

Italian

stupido (addled, asinine, blockhead, clot, dumb, fool, foolish, idiot, idiotic, mindless, nitwit, numskull, oafish, silly, stupid, stupide, witless), allocco (ass, fool, gawk, hardhead, loggerhead, oaf, owl, tawny owl, thickhead). (various references)

Korean 

얼간이. (various references)

Pig Latin

umpchay.(various references)

Portuguese

pessoa estúpida (clod, jobbernowl), pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous). (various references)

Romanian

capãt gros, cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, knob, lid, loaf, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, sense, skull, top, understanding), tont (addle-brained, blockhead, brain-hampered, dim, dull-witted, dummy, dunderhead, goofy, nitwit, noodle, oaf, oafish, sap, thick-headed), dovleac (knob, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, pumpkin, sconce), butuc (block, butt, hub, log, lump, pap, snag, stock, stub, stump, vine), bulgãre (ball, clod, clot, cob, lump), bilã (ball, bile, bowl, gall, pellet). (various references)

Russian 

колода (deck, junk, pack, wood block, woodblock), голова (bonce, conk, head, jowl, knob, nob, noggin, noodle, nut, pate, think-tank), болван (beetle-head, berk, blockhead, blunderhead, boob, booby, chuckle-head, chunk, dolt, doodle, dope, dumbbell, dumbo, dumbo the flying elephant, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fool, goon, hardhead, jackass, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loghead, log-head, lubber-head, lump, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-head, nerd, numskull, pudding-head). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veliko parče mesa, glupak (chuckle-head, dolt, jobbernowl, jolterhead, juggins, lame brain, noodle, simpleton), balvan (block). (various references)

Spanish

cabeza (bean, chapeau, coryphaeus, father, head, lead, nob, noodle, pate, rocker, testa, top), zoquete (block, clod, duffer, dullard, lump, numskull, oaf), melón (melon), adoquín (ass, block, cobble, fool, hardhead, loggerhead, paving stone, paving-stone, thickhead). (various references)

Swedish

träkloss (cleat). (various references)

Thai

ไม้ท่อนใหญ่ๆ, คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, clod, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, oaf, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko). (various references)

Turkish

takoz (batten, chock, dowel, nog, scotch, skid, sprag, wedge), saksı (bean, crock, flowerpot, jardiniere, noodle, pot, sconce), mankafa (blockhead, bonehead, bone-headed, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, mutt, Numbskull, numskull, pinhead, pudding-head, purblind, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, saphead, slow witted, slowcoach, slowpoke, soft, soft in the head, softhead, thickhead, thickheaded), kuzu filetosu, kelle (bean, head, nob, pate, poll, sconce), kafa (bean, brains, cast of mind, coconut, conk, costard, end, head, headpiece, intelligence, knob, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, poll, potato, savvy, sconce), kütük (billet, block, calendar, clog, enrollment, enrolment, ingot, log, logbook, record, register, registry, stock, stump, wood block), küt uç, enayi (dupe, fall guy, fool, foolish, goat, gudgeon, gull, mug, muggins, pigeon, schlemiel, schlemihl, schlepper, set up, sucker), alık (booby, dimwitted, dolt, gunsel, nincompoop, scatterbrained, scatty, simpleton, wooden), akıl (advice, bean, brain, comprehension, consciousness, gray matter, grey matter, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, loaf, memory, mental, mind, nous, prudence, psyche, reason, sapience, senses, strength of mind, wisdom, wit), çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, contravene, crunch, infringe, masticate, outrage, override, run down, run over, squelch, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample, trample down, transgress, violate). (various references)

Ukrainian

чурбак (woodblock), філей (filet, fillet, sirloin), товстий кінець (butt), телепень (addle-head, ass, blockhead, boob, chuckle-head, clod, cuckoo, dunderhead, fathead, gawk, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head), колода (balk, bee-tree, billet, block, chuck, clump, juggle, rafter, timber), макітра (garret, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion), лобуряка, бовдур (beef-head, beetle-head, blunt, bufflehead, doodle, dumdum, goon, leather-head, noodle, wooden-head), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile), довбешка (calabash, nob, skull). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mất trí (distracted, distraught, insane, loose, nut, nutty). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "chump": chumped, chumping, chumps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Chump" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cgi, Chempro, Chhun, chimpy, chmm, chomb, chu, Chuma, chup, chupa, chym, cumop, khemp, Khum, Khumba, Kump, Ochumba, Schlumpf, schtumm. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chum, hump, much.

-2 letters: cum, cup, hum, hup, ump.

-3 letters: hm, mu, uh, um, up.

+1 letter: chumps.

+2 letters: chumped, matchup, schlump.

+3 letters: chipmuck, chipmunk, chumping, chumship, clumpish, humpback, matchups, schlumps.

+4 letters: chipmucks, chipmunks, chumships, humpbacks, schlumped.

+5 letters: apothecium, callithump, humpbacked, mouthpiece, schlumping, supermacho, unemphatic.