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Synonyms for chump

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idiot sucker patsy dolt

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Noun

1. An unintelligent person — A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense

fool, sucker, idiot, dolt, patsy, fall guy informal, jerk, dunce, twit, mug, dope, dupe, live one informal, gull, dummy, block head, mutt, mark, ding-a-ling, pigeon, sap, booby

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    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.

Forms

Plural
chumps → fools, suckers, idiots, dolts…

Example sentences

  • idiot When are you going to stop laughing like an idiot?
  • sucker As you might already know, I am a sucker for old books.
  • patsy Layla saw Fadil as a patsy with a wallet.
  • dolt Only a dolt could fail to understand what was implied by that letter.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
chumprising
idiotrising
suckersteady
patsyrising
doltrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
mug1, sap1
4 letters
mark1, fool1, jerk1, dope1, gull1, mutt1, dupe1, twit, dolt
5 letters
idiot3, dummy2, patsy2, booby2, dunce
6 letters
sucker2, pigeon2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (idiot3 = 3 syllables).