sumph

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Unknown.

Noun[edit]

sumph (plural sumphs)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) A dunce; a blockhead.
    • 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 312:
      His daughter, that sumph that was Mistress Bruce, fair jumped as she heard the bang of the door [...].
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Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

sumph (plural sumphs)

  1. Obsolete form of sump (“lowest part of a mineshaft, into which water drains”).

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