chump

FREQ #12017

n. 大木块, (羊)腰臀部的肉, 傻瓜

发音

US /t͡ʃʌmp/

词形变化

chumps 复数 chumps chumps 三单 chumping 现在分词 chumped 过去式 chumped 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

    非正式 贬义

    That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

    What chumps! Didn’t they realize that all they had to do was interpret the constitutional term “the Legislature” to mean “the people”?

  2. 2.

    A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.

    非正式 贬义

    It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump.

  3. 3.

    The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.

  4. 4.

    A person's head or face.

    英国 废旧 俚语
v.
  1. 1.

    To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).

    俚语 及物
  2. 1.

    Dated form of chomp.

    过时

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

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上位词 2

victim dupe

下位词 1

fall guy

相关短语

chump change n. 很少的钱 chump chop chump chops chump block chump blocker chump blockers chump blocks chump blocking chump blocked chump off off one's chump average frustrated chump one pump chump

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary