chump

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

Verb Forms: chumped, chumping, chumps

To munch or chew something noisily or in large mouthfuls.
To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).
Dated form of chomp.

Examples

He was so focused on his Words With Friends game, he could only CHUMP on his snack mindlessly.
It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump.
That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

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

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

Scrabble Score: 14

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

Words With Friends Score: 17

chump: valid Words With Friends Word