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Adjective
chumpiest
- superlative form of chumpy: most chumpy
1908, Iowa Reformatory at Anamosa, The Reformatory Press, volume 11, page 6139:“Pretty smart chap, that,” muttered the Wise Man as he sauntered off.
“Positive, chump; comparative chumpier; superlative, chumpiest: that’s my definition of him,” concluded the Fool as he resumed his favorite pastime, that of making faces at the cigar dealer’s wooden Indian.
2001 September 1, Christina M. Girod, People in the News: Matt Damon, Lucent Books, →ISBN, page 22, →ISBN:However, Damon pushed away his doubts, later describing his view of the experience: “We were the two chumpiest kids in the world — Ben’s thinking he’s the biggest star in the world, and he’s going, ‘This is Matt, he’s an actor, too!’ and I’m kinda too cool to talk. And they said, ‘Oh, yeah, we’ll represent Matt too.’”
- 2001 November 5th, New York (New York Magazine Co.), volume 34, “Skin Deep”, page 71:
- [The Coen brothers] pull out the ripest, most iconic lines: When Thornton’s Ed Crane says to himself, “How could I have been so stupid?,” he’s intoning the lament of all noir chumps. But Crane, who looks like Bogart in High Sierra, is a monotonous blank, which is what even the chumpiest noir guys never were.