chump

Meanings

Plural: chumps

Noun

a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
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.
A person's head or face.

Verb

To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).
Dated form of chomp.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

blockhead, chump off, dolt, dope, dummy, dunce, dupe, fall guy, fool, gull, idiot, mark, mug, patsy, pigeon, sap, soft touch, sucker

Scrabble Score: 14

chump is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
chump is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
chump is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

chump is a valid Words With Friends word