Shuck vs Chump - What's the difference?
shuck | chump |
The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
(slang, African American Vernacular English) A fraud; a scam.
(slang) A phony.
To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
To remove (any outer covering).
(transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
(colloquial, pejorative) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
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The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
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As nouns the difference between shuck and chump
is that shuck is the shell or husk, especially of grains (eg corn/maize) or nuts (eg walnuts) while chump is (colloquial|pejorative) an incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.As a verb shuck
is to remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc).shuck
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Shall we shuck walnuts?
- I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.
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*chump
English
Noun
(en noun)- That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
- It shouldn't be hard to put one over on ''that'' chump .
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- Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump -end of something.