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Blockhead vs Sumph - What's the difference?

blockhead | sumph |

As nouns the difference between blockhead and sumph

is that blockhead is (colloquial) a stupid person while sumph is (scotland|northern england) a dunce; a blockhead.

blockhead

English

Alternative forms

* block head, block-head

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial) A stupid person.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1764 , author=Horace Walpole , title=The Castle of Otranto , passage=So I think, blockheads , said Manfred: what is it has scared you thus?}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * blockheaded * blockheadess

    sumph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A dunce; a blockhead.
  • *1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 312:
  • *:His daughter, that sumph that was Mistress Bruce, fair jumped as she heard the bang of the door [...].