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Chummy vs Chumpy - What's the difference?

chummy | chumpy |

As adjectives the difference between chummy and chumpy

is that chummy is friendly; on, or trying to be on, intimate terms while chumpy is short and fat, particularly in comparison with something of more favourable dimensions.

chummy

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • friendly; on, or trying to be on, intimate terms

    • Antonyms

    * mannered

    Synonyms

    * familiar

    Related terms

    * chum

    chumpy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Short and fat, particularly in comparison with something of more favourable dimensions.
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  • (slang, of a person) Blockheaded; dim-witted.
  • (slang, mildly insulting) Like a chump; annoying.

    • Synonyms

    * (short and fat) dumpy, dubby

    References

    * “ chumpy, a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989
    ??Defined in the first sense (“short and fat”) only.