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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 1

From Middle English grynden, from Old English grindan, (cognate with Dutch grinden (“to grind”, rare) and grind (“gravel, shingle”), from Proto-Germanic *grindan?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?rend?- (“crushing”). Compare Saterland Frisian griene (“to grind; mill”), Albanian grind (“to brawl, fight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???a?nd/,
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Verb

grind (third-person singular simple present grinds, present participle grinding, simple past and past participle ground or grinded) (see usage notes below)

1. (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
2. (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.

3. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
4. (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.

5. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
6. (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
7. (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
8. (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
9. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
10. (video games, intransitive) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
11. (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.

12. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
13. (computing, dated) To automatically format and indent code.
14. To instill through repetitive teaching.

15. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.

16. (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrar to this entry?)

17. (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.

Usage notes

• In the sports and video game senses, the past participle and past tense form grinded is often used instead of the irregular form ground.
• Historically, there also existed a past participle form grounden, but it is now archaic or obsolete.
• When used to denote sexually suggestive dancing between two partners, the past participle and past tense form grinded is almost always used.

Conjugation

Strong conjugation

Weak conjugation

Derived terms

• bump and grind
• grind down
• have an axe to grind

Translations

Noun

grind (countable and uncountable, plural grinds)

1. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
2. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
3. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.

4. A tedious and laborious task.

   Synonym: chore
5. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
6. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard.

   Synonym: swot
7. (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
8. (slang) Hustle. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Faroese grind (“pilot-whale meat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

grind (plural grinds)

1. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

Synonyms

• grindadráp

Anagrams

• D-ring, dring

Albanian

Etymology

Either a nasal variant of grij or gërdhij, from Proto-Indo-European *g?rend?- (compare English grind, Lithuanian gréndžiu (“to scrape, scratch”). Same sense development as with grih.

Verb

grind (first-person singular past tense grinda, participle grindur)

1. to brawl, to fight, to wrangle over

Related terms

• grij
• gërryej
• gërdhij

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?nt/
• Hyphenation: grind
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch grint, grinde, from Old Dutch *grinda, from Proto-Germanic *grind? (“sand, pebbles”).

Alternative forms

• grinde, grinte (obsolete)
• grint

Noun

grind n (uncountable)

1. (geology) The materials gravel, shingle or pebbles.

Derived terms

• grindbed
• grindbeton
• grinden
• grindig
• grindpad
• grindweg

Descendants

• Afrikaans: grint

Etymology 2

Germanic, perhaps from the above root as a crusty rash

Alternative forms

• grinde

Noun

grind n (uncountable)

1. (archaic, pathology) The diseases scabies (human), mange (canine)

Synonyms

• schurft m

Derived terms

• grindig (adjective)

Anagrams

• dring

Faroese

Etymology 1

From Old Norse grind (“gate”)

Pronunciation

Noun

grind f (genitive singular grindar, plural grindir)

1. A framework
2. A grille

Declension

Etymology 2

The term is a Faroese invention. A school of pilot whales reminds of a framework (see grind above) in the sea, by swimming very close to each other. The Faroese term was loaned in many other languages; compare German Grindwal, Danish grindehval or Dutch griend.More likely the word is related to the English word ground and refers to the whales frequently being grounded or easily driven onto ground.

Noun

grind f (genitive singular grindar, plural grindir)

1. A school of grindahvalur (pilot whales)
2. The tvøst (meat) and spik (blubber) of the pilot whales
3. The act of pilot whaling, grindadráp
4. (figuratively) An unexpected meal

Declension

Descendants

• Belarusian: ??????? (hrýnda)
• ? Danish: grindehval
• Dutch: griend
• German: Grindwal
• Icelandic: grind
• Russian: ??????? (grínda)
• Ukrainian: ??????? (hrýnda)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kr?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Old Norse grind

Noun

grind f (genitive singular grindar, nominative plural grindur)

1. lattice, grid, grille
2. framework
3. (order theory) lattice

Declension

Etymology 2

From Faroese grind.

Noun

grind f (genitive singular grindar, nominative plural grindur)

1. pilot whale

Declension

Synonyms

• (pilot whale): grindahvalur, marsvín

Anagrams

• girnd

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse grind

Noun

grind f or m (definite singular grinda or grinden, indefinite plural grinder, definite plural grindene)

1. A hinged gate across a road or path where it is intersected by a fence.
2. A framework
3. A grille

Derived terms

References

• “grind” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “grind” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse grind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?nd/, /?r?n?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

grind f (definite singular grinda, indefinite plural grinder, definite plural grindene)

1. A hinged gate across a road or path where it is intersected by a fence.
2. A framework
3. A grille

Inflection

Derived terms

• leikegrind
• takgrind
• trappegrind

References

• “grind” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grindiz.

Noun

grind f (genitive grindar, plural grindr)

1. a gate made of spars or bars
2. haven, dock
3. storehouses

Declension

Descendants

References

• grind in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish grind, from Old Norse grind, from Proto-Germanic *grindiz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?rend?-.

Noun

grind c

1. A gate; door-like structure outside a building
2. (computing) A gate, logical pathway

Declension

Anagrams

• ringd