English

Noun

numps ‎(plural numpses)

1. (obsolete) A fool; a blockhead.
   • Bishop Parker

     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.

   • 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights, ch. 10:

     "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.