numps

plural numpses · alternative nump

1. obsoleteA fool; a blockhead.

   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.

   1673, Samuel Parker, A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosed

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   "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.

   1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights

1. obsoleteA diminutive of the male given name Humphrey.

   Humphrey Waspe:[…]And here is a Rogueis the baud o'the cutpurſes, whom I will beat to begin with. Cokes: Numps, Numps. Dame Overdoo: Good Mʳ Humphrey.

   1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act II, scene iv, page 31