chumping
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of chumping
from chump 1 (sense 2)
Example Sentences
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Or, press his teeth to hear chumping sounds.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 17, 2014
"It's as dry as chumping chaff!" she confided dismally.
From The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil
Vanslyperken followed: but the sow proved that she could fight as well as run, every minute turning round to bay, and chumping and grumbling in a very formidable manner.
From Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat
But when he remembered how the jailer never complained of prisoners of the limits chumping ofer the posts, if so they chumped back again in a moment, the trouble went out of his mind.
From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Edward William Thomson
Vanslyperken followed; but the sow proved that she could fight as well as run, every minute turning round to bay, and chumping and grumbling in a very formidable manner.
From Snarleyyow by Frederick Marryat
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