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sumphs

sumphs is the plural of sumph.

Meaning of sumph

Noun

sumph (plural sumphs)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A dunce; a blockhead.
    • His daughter, that sumph that was Mistress Bruce, fair jumped as she heard the bang of the door [...].1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 312

Questions about sumphs

What is sumphs the plural of?
Sumphs is the plural of sumph.

Words near sumphs in the dictionary

  1. sumpah
  2. sumped
  3. sumph
  4. sumphish
  5. sumphishness
  6. sumphs
  7. sumpin
  8. sumpin'
  9. sumping
  10. sumpit
  11. sumpitan

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