sumph

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

Noun

sumph (plural sumphs)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A dunce; a blockhead.
   • 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 312:

     His daughter, that sumph that was Mistress Bruce, fair jumped as she heard the bang of the door [...].

Derived terms

• sumphish

Etymology 2

Noun

sumph (plural sumphs)

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

Anagrams

• humps, shmup