Meaning of off one's chump | Babel Free

Definitions

Crazy, insane.

Australia, British, colloquial

Examples

““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.”

“So I′m back to square one, worrying again about whether I′m off my chump even considering doing an MA in Creative Writing, MAICW.”

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