"off one's chump" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: en-au-off one's chump.ogg
Etymology: See chump (“the head”), and compare off one's head. Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} off one's chump, {{en-PP}} off one's chump
  1. (UK, Australia, slang) Crazy, insane. Tags: Australia, UK, slang
    Sense id: en-off_one's_chump-en-prep_phrase-AUGT0d~x Categories (other): Australian English, British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1883, Richard Harris, The Humourous^([sic]) Story of Farmer Bumpkin′s Lawsuit, Gutenberg eBook #30551:",
          "text": "“Ay, sure ’ave ur; and wot the devil I be to do agin that there Snooks, as ’ll lie through a brick wall, I beant able to say. I be pooty nigh off my chump wot wi’ one thing and another.”",
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          "text": "1888, Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne), A Sydney-Side Saxon, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607291,\n‘ […] I′m not off my chump, no more than you are, and I haven't smelt spirits since last Christmas.’"
        },
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          "text": "1890, Catherine Martin, An Australian Girl, 2002, Margaret Ellen Allen (biographical information), Rosemary Campbell (introduction and notes; editor), University of Queensland Press, page 90,\nIt put him off his chump entirely. He went completely to the bad."
        },
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          "ref": "1891, The Australian journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, science, and Art, volume 26, page 477:",
          "text": "Such luck as he was going for was literally impossible, and he was regarded as “off his chump,” as someone put it expressively.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter VI, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC:",
          "text": "What with the shock of him going in this awful rash way, and thinking myself a made man by that chance, I was nearly off my chump for a week.",
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          "ref": "1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 125:",
          "text": "I'm going away. He's off his chump, he is. I dont want no balmies teaching me.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gwyneth Daniel, The Word Mountain, page 53:",
          "text": "So I′m back to square one, worrying again about whether I′m off my chump even considering doing an MA in Creative Writing, MAICW.",
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        "(UK, Australia, slang) Crazy, insane."
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