CHUMP • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Chump

"Chump" Quotes from Famous Books

... have a B. and S. for luck. Then I would get a big ulster with astrakhan fur, and take my cane and do the la-de-la down Piccadilly. Then I would go to a slap-up restaurant, and have green peas, and a bottle of fizz, and a chump chop—Oh! and I forgot, I'd 'ave some devilled whitebait first—and green gooseberry tart, and 'ot coffee, and some of that form of vice in big bottles with a seal—Benedictine—that's the bloomin' nyme! Then I'd drop into a theatre, and ...

— The Ebb-Tide - A Trio And Quartette • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... "Here's a pretty go! Talk about a poor fellow being off his chump!" Then aloud, as he felt the lad's hand feebly feeling for his, "It was like this 'ere, sir. You must have got into some row with a boatful of the niggers, and they knocked ...

— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn

... cold, Nance?" said Lou. "Say, what a chump you are for working in that old store for $8. a week! I made $l8.50 last week. Of course ironing ain't as swell work as selling lace behind a counter, but it pays. None of us ironers make less than $10. And I don't know that it's ...

— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry

... "Terry, I AM a chump! All this time I've forgotten to tell you that a captain's commission is waiting your ...

— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson

... when Aunt Agatha had simmered down and got over the Glossop episode. I know that London is a biggish city, but, believe me, it isn't half big enough for any fellow to live in with Aunt Agatha when she's after him with the old hatchet. And so I'm bound to say I looked on this chump Bassington-Bassington, when he arrived, more or less as a Dove of Peace, and was ...

— Death At The Excelsior • P. G. Wodehouse

More quotes...