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Humph vs Sumph - What's the difference?

humph | sumph |

As an interjection humph

is used to express doubt or disapproval.

As a verb humph

is to utter "humph!" in doubt or disapproval.

As a noun sumph is

(scotland|northern england) a dunce; a blockhead.

humph

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Interjection

  • Used to express doubt or disapproval
  • Synonyms

    * humbug!

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To utter "humph!" in doubt or disapproval.
  • sumph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A dunce; a blockhead.
  • *1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 312:
  • *:His daughter, that sumph that was Mistress Bruce, fair jumped as she heard the bang of the door [...].