Chump vs Sucker - What's the difference?
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(colloquial, pejorative) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
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The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
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A person or thing that sucks.
An organ or body part that does the sucking.
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollipop.
(horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
(British, colloquial) A suction cup.
A suckling animal.
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
A parasite; a sponger.
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(slang, archaic) A hard drinker; a soaker.
A person that sucks; a general term of disparagement.
To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
(slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".
Sucker is a synonym of chump.
As nouns the difference between chump and sucker
is that chump is an incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser while sucker is a person or thing that sucks.As a verb sucker is
to strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.chump
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Noun
(en noun)- That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
- It shouldn't be hard to put one over on ''that'' chump .
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- Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump -end of something.
Synonyms
* (an unintelligent person) blockhead, idiot, dope, dolt, dunce, dummy * (a gullible person) gull, sucker, dupe, sap, dummy; pushover, patsy; mark, pigeon, sucker; fool, dummy * See alsoDerived terms
* chump change * chump chop * off one's chumpsucker
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Etymology 1
From the verb (suck).Noun
(en noun)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- (Boyle)
- They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker , no branch.
Synonyms
* (piece of candy) lollipopEtymology 2
Possibly from the (Pig in a poke) scam, where victims were tricked into believing they were buying a young (that is a suckling) pig. Also possibly from suckener.Synonyms
* (one who is easily fooled) chump, fall-guy, fish, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, rube, schlemiel, soft touch * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.
