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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 Middle English gnawen, gna?en, from Old English gnagan, from Proto-Germanic *gnagan?. Cognate with Dutch knagen, German nagen, Norwegian Bokmål gnage, Norwegian Nynorsk gnaga, Swedish gnaga. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *g?n?g?- (“to gnaw, scratch”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: nô, IPA^(key): /n??/
• Rhymes: -??
• (US) enPR: nô, IPA^(key): /n?/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: nä, IPA^(key): /n?/
• Homophone: nor (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Verb

gnaw (third-person singular simple present gnaws, present participle gnawing, simple past gnawed or (dialectal) gnew, past participle gnawed or (archaic) gnawn)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
2. (intransitive) To produce excessive anxiety or worry.

3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

Derived terms

• begnaw
• gnawer
• gnawable
• ungnawed

Related terms

• nag

Translations

Noun

gnaw (plural gnaws)

1. the act of gnawing

Anagrams

• AgNW, Ngwa, Wang, g'wan, gawn, gwan, wang

Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nau?/

Noun

gnaw

1. Soft mutation of knaw.

Mutation