The difference between Chump and Dummy

When used as nouns, chump means an incompetent person, a blockhead, whereas dummy means a silent person.


Dummy is also verb with the meaning: to make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

check bellow for the other definitions of Chump and Dummy

  1. Chump as a noun (colloquial, pejorative):

    An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

    Examples:

    "That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground."

  2. Chump as a noun:

    A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.

    Examples:

    "It shouldn't be hard to put one over on ''that'' chump."

  3. Chump as a noun:

    The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.

  1. Chump as a verb:

  1. Dummy as a noun:

    A silent person; a person who does not talk.

  2. Dummy as a noun:

    An unintelligent person.

    Examples:

    "Don't be such a dummy!"

  3. Dummy as a noun:

    A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

  4. Dummy as a noun:

    Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

    Examples:

    "To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop."

  5. Dummy as a noun:

    A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.

  6. Dummy as a noun:

    A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

    Examples:

    "The hammer and drill in the display are dummies."

  7. Dummy as a noun (AU, UK, NZ):

    A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.

    Examples:

    "The baby wants her dummy."

  8. Dummy as a noun (card games, chiefly, bridge):

    A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.

  9. Dummy as a noun (UK):

    A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.

  10. Dummy as a noun (linguistics):

    A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

    Examples:

    "The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy."

  11. Dummy as a noun (programming):

    An unused parameter or value.

    Examples:

    "If <code>flag1</code> is false, the other parameters are dummies."

  12. Dummy as a noun (sports, mostly, rugby, soccer):

    A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.

  1. Dummy as a verb:

    To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

    Examples:

    "The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals."

  2. Dummy as a verb:

    To feint