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chump
English
Etymology
Compare Icelandic kumbr (“a chopping”), English chop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
chump (plural chumps)
- (colloquial, derogatory) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
- 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)
- Dated form of chomp.
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nitwit
English
Etymology
First attested in the 1910s in the US Northeast. Likely from German nit, dialectal form of nichts (“nothing”), or Yiddish ???? (nit), dialectal form of ????? (nisht, “no”), although some dictionaries give the alternative etymology nit (“louse egg; something very small”) +? wit.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?tw?t/
Noun
nitwit (plural nitwits)
- (informal) A scatterbrained or stupid person.
- 1918, State Bar Association of Connecticut, Annual Report, page 82
- If you don't remember you are a nitwit. If you do answer, well, you know what the penalty is for perjury.
- 1921, Emmett Campbell Hall, "Need a Hero be a Nitwit?", The Editor, page 58
- 1918, State Bar Association of Connecticut, Annual Report, page 82
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:fool
Translations
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