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Clod vs Chump - What's the difference?

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Clod is a synonym of chump.


As nouns the difference between clod and chump

is that clod is a lump of something, especially of earth or clay while chump is (colloquial|pejorative) an incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

As a verb clod

is to pelt with clods.

clod

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
  • * Milton
    • clods of iron and brass
  • * E. Fairfax
    • clods of blood
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod', is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller ' clod .
  • * T. Burnet
    • this cold clod of clay which we carry about with us
  • * 2010 ,
    • "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.
  • The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • the clod where once their sultan's horse has trod
  • A stupid person; a dolt.
    • (Dryden)
  • Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

    • Verb

    (clodd)
  • To pelt with clods.
    • (Jonson)
  • (Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
    • clodded gore
  • * G. Fletcher
    • Clodded in lumps of clay.
    (Webster 1913)

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    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