different between chomp vs gnaw

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)

1. The act of chomping (see below)

Verb

chomp (third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple past and past participle chomped)

1. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.

   The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.

2. (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

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