Numps vs Sumps - What's the difference?
numps | sumps |
(obsolete) A fool; a blockhead.
* Bishop Parker
* 1902 , , Olympian Nights , ch. 10:
As nouns the difference between numps and sumps
is that numps is (obsolete) a fool; a blockhead while sumps is .As a verb sumps is
(sump).numps
English
Noun
(es)- These are villainous engines indeed; but take heart, numps ! here is not a word of the stocks; and you need never stand in awe of any more honourable correction.
- "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head; you're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps , a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter !" I shrieked the last epithet.