chump

Meaning

Noun

• An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• blockhead, idiot, dope, dolt, dunce, dummy
• gull, sucker, dupe, sap, dummy, patsy, pigeon

Origin

• Origin unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of chub. Compare Icelandic kumbr ("a chopping"), English chop. Probably related to chunk.
• Variant of chomp, itself a variant of champ. More at champ.