numps

English

Alternative forms

• nump

Etymology

Compare numb.

Noun

numps (plural numpses)

1. (obsolete) A fool; a blockhead.
   • 1673, Samuel Parker, A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosed‎^[1]:

     These are villainous engines indeed; but take heart, Numps! here is not a word of the stocks; and you need never stand in awe of any more honourable correction.

   • 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights:

     "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head; you're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.