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Pumps vs Numps - What's the difference?

pumps | numps |

As nouns the difference between pumps and numps

is that pumps is while numps is (obsolete) a fool; a blockhead.

As a verb pumps

is (pump).

pumps

English

Noun

(head)
  • (regional) gym shoes
  • A woman's shoe that has medium or high heels and no fastenings.

    • Synonyms

    * plimsolls * daps * trainers

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pump)

    • numps

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) A fool; a blockhead.
  • * Bishop Parker
    • 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.
  • * 1902 , , Olympian Nights , ch. 10:
    • "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.