"numps" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: numpses [plural]
Etymology: Compare numb. Head templates: {{en-noun}} numps (plural numpses)
  1. (obsolete) A fool; a blockhead. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: nump
    Sense id: en-numps-en-noun-RE3iNKNA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_text": "Compare numb.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "numpses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "numps (plural numpses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1673, Samuel Parker, A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosed",
          "text": "These are villainous engines indeed; but take heart, Numps! here is not a word of the stocks; and you need never stand in awe of any more honourable correction.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights",
          "text": "\"You're a dizzard!\" I retorted. \"And a noodle and a jolt-head; you're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!\" I shrieked the last epithet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fool; a blockhead."
      ],
      "id": "en-numps-en-noun-RE3iNKNA",
      "links": [
        [
          "fool",
          "fool"
        ],
        [
          "blockhead",
          "blockhead"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A fool; a blockhead."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nump"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "numps"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Compare numb.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "numpses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "numps (plural numpses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1673, Samuel Parker, A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosed",
          "text": "These are villainous engines indeed; but take heart, Numps! here is not a word of the stocks; and you need never stand in awe of any more honourable correction.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights",
          "text": "\"You're a dizzard!\" I retorted. \"And a noodle and a jolt-head; you're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!\" I shrieked the last epithet.",
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      ],
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        "A fool; a blockhead."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fool",
          "fool"
        ],
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        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A fool; a blockhead."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "nump"
    }
  ],
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}

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