different between pushover vs chump

English

Etymology

push +? over; US 1906 of things, 1926 of people (bad boxers and easy women), popularized by Jack Conway of Variety.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p????v?(?)/

Noun

pushover (plural pushovers)

1. Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change his/her mind or comply.

2. Someone who lets him/herself be picked or bullied on without defending or stand up for him/herself.

Synonyms

• (someone who is easily swayed or influenced): little girl, mollusc, nose of wax
• (someone who lets him/herself be picked-on or bullied): nestle-cock, softy, wuss; see also Thesaurus:milksop

Derived terms

• pushoverness

Translations

See also

• cave
• cave in
• give in
• pullover
• turn the other cheek
• Appendix:Words from Variety

References

Anagrams

• overpush

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.