sumph

/ sʌmf /

noun

1. a stupid person; simpleton

Word History and Origins

Origin of sumph¹

C18: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

Here’s James Malone, the honest, simple sumph come back again.

From Project Gutenberg

There was Mr. Bole the real editor of the magazine, of which Mr. Wagg was the nominal chief; Mr. Trotter, who, from having broken out on the world as a poet of a tragic and suicidal cast, had now subsided into one of Mr. Bungay's back shops as reader for that gentleman; and Captain Sumph, an ex-beau still about town, and related in some indistinct manner to Literature and the Peerage.

From Project Gutenberg

I remember poor Byron, Hobhouse, Trelawney, and myself, dining with Cardinal Mezzocaldo, at Rome," Captain Sumph began, "and we had some Orvieto wine for dinner, which Byron liked very much.

From Project Gutenberg

Why don't you ask Sumph to publish 'em in your new paper—the what-d'ye-call'em?—hay,

From Project Gutenberg

"That man's sic a muckle sumph, he's no afeard o' onything," said Mrs. Mackenzie, the dragoon's little drunken wife.

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