sumph
English
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Noun
sumph (plural sumphs)
- (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 [...].
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 312:
Derived terms
- sumphish
Noun
sumph (plural sumphs)
- Obsolete form of sump (“lowest part of a mineshaft, into which water drains”).
Anagrams
- humps, phums, shmup