different between chump vs chumpy

English

Etymology

Compare Icelandic kumbr (“a chopping”), English chop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

chump (plural chumps)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

2. (colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
3. The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.

Synonyms

• (an unintelligent person): blockhead, idiot, dope, dolt, dunce, dummy
• (a gullible person): gull, sucker, dupe, sap, dummy, patsy, pigeon
• See also Thesaurus:dupe

Derived terms

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

Translations

Verb

chump (third-person singular simple present chumps, present participle chumping, simple past and past participle chumped)

1. Dated form of chomp.

English

Etymology

chump +? -y

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: ch?m?pi, IPA^(key): /?t??mpi/

Adjective

chumpy (comparative chumpier, superlative chumpiest)

1. Short and fat, particularly in comparison with something of more favourable dimensions.
2. (slang, of a person) Blockheaded; dim-witted.
3. (slang, mildly insulting) Like a chump; annoying.

Synonyms

• (short and fat): dumpy, dubby

References

• “chumpy, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
  ??Defined in the first sense (“short and fat”) only.
• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary