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Simpleton vs Chump - What's the difference?

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Simpleton is a related term of chump.


As nouns the difference between simpleton and chump

is that simpleton is (pejorative) a simple person lacking common sense while chump is (colloquial|pejorative) an incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

simpleton

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 15 , author=Scott Tobias , title=Film: Reviews: The Dictator , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Baron Cohen’s new creation (and the previous ones, too) has its roots in Groucho characters like Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, and the concept of a pompous simpleton running a rogue nation has obvious parallels to Duck Soup’s Rufus T. Firefly, who leads the country of Fredonia to a needless and highly preventable war. }}
  • * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 92
    • The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton'. Albeit a ' simpleton with a good vocabulary.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "simpleton")

    chump

    English

    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 .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 5 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) citation , page= , passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams. }}
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (an unintelligent person) blockhead, idiot, dope, dolt, dunce, dummy * (a gullible person) gull, sucker, dupe, sap, dummy; pushover, patsy; mark, pigeon, sucker; fool, dummy * See also

    Derived terms

    * chump change * chump chop * off one's chump