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English

Etymology 1

See champion

Pronunciation

• (US, UK, General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??æmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

champ (plural champs)

1. Clipping of champion.
2. (informal) buddy, sport, mate (as a term of address)

   Whatcha doing, champ?

Derived terms

• octochamp

Etymology 2

Probably imitative

Pronunciation

• (US, UK, General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??æmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

champ (usually uncountable, plural champs)

1. (Ireland) a meal of mashed potatoes and scallions

Verb

champ (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champing, simple past and past participle champed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     They began […] irefully to champ upon the bit.

   • Foamed and champed the golden bit.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 200, [1]

     He was mad, reeling about and gesticulating at the rushing train, and champing and gurgling like a lunatic.

   • 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 13, page 166, ¶ 18

     The man beside him placed a cigar between Mallow’s teeth and lit it. He champed on one of his own and said, “You must be overworked. Maybe you need a long rest.”

Translations

Derived terms

• champ at the bit
• chomp

Etymology 3

From champagne by shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æmp/

Noun

champ (uncountable)

1. (informal) champagne
   • 1990, Ann Heller, "Prom Nights Often Offer Students Primer On Fine Dining", Dayton Daily News, 6 April 1990:

     "They're dressed up very elegantly and it's nice they have a glass of champ, even if it's non-alcoholic," Reif says.

   • 2009, The Lonely Island (featuring T-Pain), "I'm on a Boat", Incredibad:

     We're drinkin' Santana champ, 'cause it's so crisp

   • 2010, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Inheritance, Pan Books (2010), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     'Glass of champ?' she called, skipping into the kitchen.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from French champ (“field”). Doublet of campus and camp.

Alternative forms

• champe (obsolete?)

Noun

champ (plural champs)

1. (architecture, obsolete or rare) the field or ground on which carving appears in relief
2. (heraldry, obsolete or rare) the field of a shield

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

French

Etymology

From Middle French champ, from Old French champ, inherited from Latin campus (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?emp- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of camp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Homophones: champs, chant, chants
• Hyphenation: champ

Noun

champ m (plural champs)

1. field in its various senses, including:
   • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:

     ...before a in French an original c has the sound sh, and is spelt ch, as in champ (campus), chambre (camera).

   1. a wide open space
   2. an area of study
   3. (mathematics) a vector field, tensor field, or scalar field (but not a commutative ring with identity for which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse, cf. corps)
   4. (heraldry) the background of a shield's design

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: champ

Related terms

• camp
• campagne
• campanile
• campus
• champagne
• champêtre

Further reading

• “champ” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• chanp
• camp (Old Northern French)

Etymology

From Latin campus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?amp/

Noun

champ m (oblique plural chans, nominative singular chans, nominative plural champ)

1. field
2. (by extension) battlefield

Descendants

• Middle French: champ
  • French: champ
    • ? English: champ
• Walloon: tchamp

Scots

Etymology

Late Middle English, probably imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?am], [t?amp], [d?am], [d?amp]

Verb

champ (third-person singular present champs, present participle champin, past champit, past participle champit)

1. to mash, crush, pound
2. to chew voraciously

Derived terms

• champer (“an implement for mashing or crushing etc., a pestle”)
• champers (“mashed potatoes”)

Noun

champ (plural champs)

1. (geography) a stretch of ground trodden into a miry state, a quagmire

Welsh

Noun

champ

1. Aspirate mutation of camp.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /k??nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Verb

crunch (third-person singular simple present crunches, present participle crunching, simple past and past participle crunched)

1. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
   • 1816, Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth:

     And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull,

2. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.

3. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.

4. To grind or press with violence and noise.
5. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
   • 1849, Henry James, Confidence

     There were sounds in the air above his head – sounds of the crunching and rattling of the loose, smooth stones as his neighbors moved about […]

6. (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
   • 1993, "Michael Barsoom", [comp.sys.amiga.announce] PackIt Announcement (on newsgroup comp.archives)

     PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so.

7. (software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.

Derived terms

• cruncher

Translations

Noun

crunch (plural crunches)

1. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
2. A critical moment or event.
   • 1985, John C. L. Gibson, Job (page 237)

     The friends, on the contrary, argue that Job does not "know", that only God knows; yet, when it comes to the crunch, they themselves seem to know as much as God knows: for example, that Job is a guilty sinner.

3. A problem that leads to a crisis.
4. (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
5. (software engineering, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
6. A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.

   Synonyms: crisp, crumble

7. (cooking, generally in the plural) A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
8. (India, slang) A shortage.

Coordinate terms

• (abdominal exercise): sit-up, trunk curl

Derived terms

• credit crunch
• crunch time
• crunchy
• reverse crunch
• scrunch

Translations

Spanish

Noun

crunch m (plural crunches)

1. crunch (exercise)