off one's chump
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“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.”"
- "1888, Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne), A Sydney-Side Saxon, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607291, ‘ […] I′m not off my chump, no more than you are, and I haven't smelt spirits since last Christmas.’"
- "1890, Catherine Martin, An Australian Girl, 2002, Margaret Ellen Allen (biographical information), Rosemary Campbell (introduction and notes; editor), University of Queensland Press, page 90, It put him off his chump entirely. He went completely to the bad."
- "Such luck as he was going for was literally impossible, and he was regarded as “off his chump,” as someone put it expressively."
- "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."
- "I'm going away. He's off his chump, he is. I dont want no balmies teaching me."
Etymology
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Colloquial