chump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: chumps
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.
Senses: examples: text: That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
text: What chumps! Didn’t they realize that all they had to do was interpret the constitutional term “the Legislature” to mean “the people”?
ref: 2015, chief justice John G. Roberts, dissenting in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission et al., June 29 2015
glosses: An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
examples: text: It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump.
text: “Well, that's it. Let's reactivate him. Wake up!” “[Yawns] Hey, chumps and chumpettes. Did you get the bomb out? Can I go back to saying the word I love to say?” “I'm sorry, but we couldn't remove it.” “It's stuck in there with glue or something. I don't know.” “Well, this is just great. What's the point of living if I can't say ass? [Gasps] Hey! I didn't blow up! Ass! Ass! Ass! Ass! Ass! All right! I'm back in the saddle.” “We couldn't disarm the bomb, so we reset the word that triggers it.” “It's from the list of words you almost never say.” “That's using your ass. So what's the word?” “We think it's better if you don't know.” “Oh, come on. I'm not going to say it. Please? Ooh, is it "please"?” “Nope.” “Hmm. Words I never say. Oh. I know. "Thanks."” “Bender, stop trying to destroy the world.” “Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is it "sorry"? No. "Funderful"? Mmm... "Non-alcoholic"?” “Quit it.” “Bender.” “Stop it, mon.” “Enough already.” “"Compassion"? "Shrimp toast"? "Antiquing"?” [Explosion] “I'm all right.”
ref: 2000 November 26, Eric Horsted, “War Is the H-Word” (20:47 from the start), in Futurama, season 2, episode 17, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio):
text: 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.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club:
glosses: A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
examples: text: Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump-end of something.
ref: 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter X:
glosses: The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
glosses: A person's head or face.
Synonyms: sense: an unintelligent person
word: blockhead
sense: an unintelligent person
word: idiot
sense: an unintelligent person
word: dope
sense: an unintelligent person
word: dolt
sense: an unintelligent person
word: dunce
sense: an unintelligent person
word: dummy
sense: a gullible person
word: gull
sense: a gullible person
word: sucker
sense: a gullible person
word: dupe
sense: a gullible person
word: sap
sense: a gullible person
word: dummy
sense: a gullible person
word: patsy
sense: a gullible person
word: pigeon
Derived terms: 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