/t͡ʃʌmp/
OriginOrigin 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.
- 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.”
- UK, obsolete, slangA person's head or face.
- slang, transitiveTo treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).
- alt-of, datedDated form of chomp.
“At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy.”
Formschumps(plural) · chumps(present, singular, third-person) · chumping(participle, present) · chumped(participle, past) · chumped(past)