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 .

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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.

Noun

(en noun)

A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla , native to Australia.

* 2005 , David Lindenmayer, Mark A. Burgman, Practical Conservation Biology , page 175,

The Galah' has benefited from changes in the environment brought about by human activities (Rowley, 1990; Saunders and Ingram, 1995; Forshaw, 2002). The ' Galah ?s diet is predominantly seeds, especially those from cereal crops and agricultural weeds.

(Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.

That galah nearly drove me off the road.

* 1991 , , River of the Sun , unnumbered page,

‘Don?t just stand there, you great galah , lend a hand here!’ Billy Kemp shoved Edmund towards the longboat. ‘Get it free. The lads are bringing up the casks.’

* 1999 , , Solomon's Song , unnumbered page,

‘But, Sergeant, I reckon a man would look a proper galah falling about with an empty rifle, going click, click, click, “bang you?re dead” when he wasn?t doing rifle drill on parade, like when it?s not official, know what I mean?’ one of the infantrymen volunteers.

* 2006 , John Chalmers, The Professional Guest , page 13,

‘Then you will strut around like a great galah tryin? to impress the sheilas about what a fuckin? big iron ore miner you are.’