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Chump vs Nitwit - What's the difference?

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Chump is a related term of nitwit.


As nouns the difference between chump and nitwit

is that chump is (colloquial|pejorative) an incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser while nitwit is a scatterbrained or stupid person.

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

    nitwit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scatterbrained or stupid person.

    • Synonyms

    * See also