Numps

n. 1. A dolt; a blockhead.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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At least one marked personal allusion in Bartholomew Fair is borrowed from Nashe's dedicatory epistle addressed to "his worthies good patron, Lustie Humfrey, according as the townsmen doo christen him, little Numps" in Lenten Stuffe (3.147).
Telescoping Translation: Hero and Leander, Lenten Stuffe, and Bartholomew Fair
COKES This is a brave fellow, Numps; let's hear him.
Ben Jonson's eloquent nonsense: the noisy ordeals of heard meanings on the Jacobean stage (1609-14)
We love you, " nighty numps".) - Love Louise, Laura, Paul and Lucy xxxx.
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ORIGIN 1990s: from obsolete numps, 'a stupid person,' of unknown origin.
NUMPTY DUMPTY; Pub sign barring eejits pulls in tourists
Nominals with a quantity reading are NumPs in the sense of Li (1998).
Li (1998) claims that NumPs differ from individual-denoting nominals in that no DP is projected and that NumP is projected somewhere above NP.
As NumPs, they do not show the distribution constraint.
" Nighty Numps and Arthur." Love you.) - Vicky and Rosie xx.
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