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chomp
English
Alternative forms
- chump (dated)
Etymology
U.S. regional variation of “champ” (verb)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t??mp/
- (US) enPR: ch?mp, IPA(key): /t???mp/
- Hyphenation: chomp
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
chomp (plural chomps)
- The act of chomping (see below)
Verb
chomp (third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple past and past participle chomped)
- (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
- The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
Derived terms
- chompy
Related terms
- chomp at the bit
Translations
chomp From the web:
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chap
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?æp/
- Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
Shortened from chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th century English.
Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- (dated outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man
- (Britain, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
- 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act 3
- If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.
- 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act 3
- (Southern US) A child.
Derived terms
- chapess
- chappie
- chappo
Descendants
- Pennsylvania German: Tschaepp (“guy”)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.
Verb
chap (third-person singular simple present chaps, present participle chapping, simple past and past participle chapped)
- (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
- (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem
- Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
- 1591, John Lyly, Endymion
- whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.
- 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem
- (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 35:
- The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 35:
Derived terms
- chapped
- chapstick
Translations
Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
- Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
- (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
Derived terms
- chappy
Etymology 3
From Northern English chafts (“jaws”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).
Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- (archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
- a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Song
- His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
Related terms
- chop
Translations
Etymology 4
Shortening
Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
See also
- chaps
Anagrams
- CHPA, HCAP, PHAC, Pach
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
chap m (plural chappen, diminutive chappie n)
- Alternative spelling of sjap.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xap/
Verb
chap
- second-person singular imperative of chapa?
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ap/
Etymology
Late Middle English, from Old English *?eappian, *?ieppan, from Proto-Germanic *kapp-, *kap- (“to chop; cut; split”), like also English chop. The ultimate origin is uncertain; possibly from Vulgar Latin *cuppare (“to behead”), from Latin caput (“head”) and influenced by Old French couper (“to strike”).
Akin to Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), Middle Low German koppen (“to cut off, lop, poll”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Danish kappe (“to cut, lop off, poll”), Swedish kapa (“to cut”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *?ippian (attested in for?ippian (“to cut off”)).
Verb
chap
- (transitive, intransitive) To knock (on) or strike.
References
Semai
Alternative forms
- cap
Etymology
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *cap ~ *caap (“to seize”). Cognate with Old Khmer cap (“to seize, catch”), Kuy ca?p (“to catch, hold”).
Verb
chap
- to hold
- to catch; to seize
- to touch
Synonyms
- (to hold): pegak
- (to touch): lèèw
Derived terms
References
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