different between numbs vs numps

English

numbs

Compare numb.

numps (plural numpses)

(obsolete) A fool; a blockhead.
- 1673, Samuel Parker, A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosed[1]
  These are villainous engines indeed; but take heart, Numps! here is not a word of the stocks; and you need never stand in awe of any more honourable correction.
- 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights, ch. 10:
  "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head; you're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.

Send