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chams
English
Noun
chams
- plural of cham
Anagrams
- HMACs, chasm
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champ
English
Etymology 1
See champion
Pronunciation
- (US, UK, General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??æmp/
- Rhymes: -æmp
Noun
champ (plural champs)
- Clipping of champion.
- (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)
- (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)
- (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.”
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
Translations
Derived terms
- champ at the bit
- chomp
Etymology 3
From champagne by shortening.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æmp/
Noun
champ (uncountable)
- (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.
- 1990, Ann Heller, "Prom Nights Often Offer Students Primer On Fine Dining", Dayton Daily News, 6 April 1990:
Etymology 4
Borrowed from French champ (“field”). Doublet of campus and camp.
Alternative forms
- champe (obsolete?)
Noun
champ (plural champs)
- (architecture, obsolete or rare) the field or ground on which carving appears in relief
- (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)
- 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).
- a wide open space
- an area of study
- (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)
- (heraldry) the background of a shield's design
- 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:
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)
- field
- (by extension) battlefield
Descendants
- Middle French: champ
- French: champ
- ? English: champ
- French: 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)
- to mash, crush, pound
- to chew voraciously
Derived terms
- champer (“an implement for mashing or crushing etc., a pestle”)
- champers (“mashed potatoes”)
Noun
champ (plural champs)
- (geography) a stretch of ground trodden into a miry state, a quagmire
Welsh
Noun
champ
- Aspirate mutation of camp.
Mutation
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