chump

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  1. noun A stupid or foolish person; a dolt.
  2. transitive and intransitive verb To chew or make a chewing movement.

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  • Look, since the Kitty Dukakis question, it's been clear that any candidate who tries to answer the question is a chump, and chumps don't deserve to be president. —  Matthew Yglesias
  • We got out of the 1989-1990 S&L debacle -- which, we often forget, wiped out almost every savings and loan besides Golden West and Washington Mutual (and we know how those played out this cycle) -- by gigantic government giveaways that made anyone with capital feel like a chump for not buying a savings and loan from the RTC. —  BloggingStocks
  • Nick (right) and his chump are bunking school and camping out over night in San Fran dodging requests from tramps to get in first. —  Pocket-lint.com
  • The only thing I would agree with this chump is that no true Ravens-Redskins rivalry exists. —  Blog updates
  • So if y'all wanna keep glorifying your cherrypickin chump (or should I say "champ"?), be my freakin 'guest. —  East Side Boxing
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Perhaps blend of chunk and lump1 or stump.
  2. Variant of champ1.

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  1. Prob. a nasalized variant of chub; cf. Icelandic kumbr for kubbr, a block: see chub, and cf. chunk.
  2. A varied form of champ. Of. chumble.
 

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