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Bonehead vs Chump - What's the difference?

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Bonehead is a related term of chump.


As nouns the difference between bonehead and chump

is that bonehead is (slang) someone who is stubborn, thick-skulled, or stupid while chump is (colloquial|pejorative) an incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

bonehead

English

Noun

(wikipedia bonehead) (en noun)
  • (slang) Someone who is stubborn, thick-skulled, or stupid.
  • * 1921 , James Huneker, Variations , page 248:
  • Musical Potterism, for example, is everywhere rampant. It bobs up]] in music criticisms and peeps forth in daily intercourse. "Give me good old ," cries the classical Potterite, "and keep your modern kickshaws. Mozart is good enough for me!" Alas, we think Mozart is too good for this bonehead , who no doubt prefers a Broadway comic opera to [[w:The Marriage of Figaro, The Marriage of Figaro.

    Derived terms

    * boneheaded

    chump

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial, pejorative) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
  • That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
  • A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
  • It shouldn't be hard to put one over on ''that'' chump .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=August 5 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) citation , page= , passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams. }}
  • The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
  • * Dickens
  • 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 also

    Derived terms

    * chump change * chump chop * off one's chump