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chump

/tʃʌmp/

chumpnoun

chumps

/tʃʌmp/

Translations

болван

He felt like a chump for falling for the scam.

Он чувствовал себя болваном, попавшись на эту аферу.

дурак

Don't be a chump and believe everything you hear.

Не будь дураком и не верь всему, что слышишь.

Additional translations

лох

простофиля

Definitions

A person who is easily deceived or tricked; a fool.

He felt like a chump after falling for the scam.

A thick or heavy piece of something, especially wood.

He threw a chump of wood onto the fire to keep it burning.

The rump end of a lamb, mutton, or beef carcass considered as a cut of meat.

British butchers sell chump chops as a tender grilling cut.

Synonyms

chumpverb

chumped

Past Simple

chumped

Past Participle

chumping

Gerund

/tʃʌmp/

Attested chiefly dialectal/colloquial verb meaning “to chew vigorously”; requires full verb paradigm.

Definitions

To bite or chew (something) vigorously; to chomp.

The horse chumped the carrots noisily in the stable.

Synonyms

take in

chumpadjective

Attributive use (e.g. “chump change”); treated as adjective for dictionary completeness.

Definitions

Used attributively to denote something trivial, insignificant, or associated with foolishness.

They were squabbling over chump change.

Synonyms