chump

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. colloquial,derogatory
    — That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
  2. A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense. colloquial,derogatory
    — It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump.
  3. The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
    — Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump-end of something.
  4. A person's head or face. UK,obsolete,slang
动词 v.
  1. To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone). slang,transitive
  2. Dated form of chomp. alt-of,dated
    — At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy.

词形变化

chumps plural chumps present,singular,third-person chumping participle,present chumped participle,past chumped past chumps present,singular,third-person chumping participle,present chumped participle,past chumped past

词汇关系

近义词
blockhead idiot dope dolt dunce dummy
衍生词
average frustrated chump chump-block chump block chump blocker chump change chump-change chump chop chumpette chumpion chumpish chumpy off one's chump one pump chump

词源

词源 1
Origin uncertain; probably a blend of chunk and lump or stump, or perhaps a nasalised variant of chub (“someone chubby, something thick”). Compare Icelandic kubbur (“block of wood, chip (computing)”), Old Norse kumbr for kubbr (“block of wood”), English chop.
词源 2
Variant of chomp, itself a variant of champ (“to bite”). More at champ.
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