different between chumpy vs humpy

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

English

Etymology 1

hump +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?mpi/
• Rhymes: -?mpi

Adjective

humpy (comparative humpier, superlative humpiest)

1. Characterised by humps, uneven.
2. Muscular; hunky.
3. Hunched, bent over.
   • 1907, P. G. Wodehouse, Herbert Westbrook, Not George Washington: An Autobiographical Novel, 2008, page 107,

     Tell you what it was just like. Reminded me of it even at the time: that picture of Napoleon coming back from Moscow. The Reverend was Napoleon, and we were the generals; and if there were three humpier men walking the streets of London at that moment I should have liked to have seen them.

4. Sulky; irritable.

Derived terms

• humpily
• humpiness

Noun

humpy (plural humpies)

1. Alternative form of humpie

Etymology 2

From Yagara (Brisbane region) ?umbi, perhaps influenced by hump.

Noun

humpy (plural humpies)

1. (Australia) A hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, especially for Aborigines.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter III, p. 29, [6]

     They did nothing much more in the way of building than to erect a number of crazy humpies of such materials as bark and kerosene-cans […]

   • 1961, Nene Gare, The Fringe Dwellers, Text Classics 2012, p. 31:

     Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy.

   • 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, 1995, Angus & Robertson, p. 257,

     There weren?t that many blacks about, but a lot of humpies – at times it must have been a fairly big camp.

Synonyms

• gunyah
• mia mia
• wurly