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chumping

British

/ ˈtʃʌmpɪŋ /

noun

dialect collecting wood for bonfires on Guy Fawkes Day

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Etymology

Origin of chumping

from _chump ¹ (sense 2)

Example Sentences

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Or, press his teeth to hear chumping sounds.

From Washington Times • Dec. 17, 2014

"It's as dry as chumping chaff!" she confided dismally.

From The Head Girl at the Gables by Brazil, Angela

And there they all stood chumping in silence.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917 by Various

Vanslyperken followed: but the sow proved that she could fight as well as run, every minute turning round to bay, and chumping and grumbling in a very formidable manner.

From Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend by Marryat, Frederick

But when he remembered how the jailer never complained of prisoners of the limits chumping ofer the posts, if so they chumped back again in a moment, the trouble went out of his mind.

From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Thomson, Edward William

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