sumph

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Origin unknown.

Noun

sumph (plural sumphs)

  1. (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 [...].

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