champ
English
editEtymology 1
editClipping of champion / championship.
Pronunciation
edit- (US, UK, General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t͡ʃæmp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -æmp
Noun
editchamp (plural champs)
- (colloquial) Clipping of champion.
- (colloquial, in the plural) Clipping of championship.
- The team failed to make it to the Champs.
- (informal) Buddy, sport, mate. (as a term of address)
- Whatcha doing, champ?
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash the teeth”), perhaps originally imitative.
Pronunciation
edit- (US, UK, General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t͡ʃæmp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -æmp
Noun
editchamp (usually uncountable, plural champs)
- (Ireland) A dish comprising mashed potato and chopped scallions.
- Synonym: poundies
Verb
editchamp (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.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- They began […] irefully to champ upon the bit.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Foamed and champed the golden bit.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia[1], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 200:
- 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.”
Derived terms
editTranslations
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Derived terms
editEtymology 3
editFrom champagne by shortening.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ʃæmp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editchamp (uncountable)
- (informal) Champagne.
- 1990 April 6, Ann Heller, “Prom Nights Often Offer Students Primer On Fine Dining”, in Dayton Daily News:
- "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
Etymology 4
editBorrowed from French champ m (“field”). Doublet of campus and camp.
Alternative forms
edit- champe (obsolete?)
Noun
editchamp (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.
- 1914, John Horne Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland, page 30:
- If a man, he adds, have taken for his arms 'a low of gules in a champ of silver,'1 […]
1A flame (pile wavy) gules in a silver field. Thus the arms of the family of Bataille de Mandelot are, Argent three flames, per piles wavy gules, issuant from the base. Woodward, Heraldry, i. 158. Otherwise one might almost suppose that the word 'low' of the MS. was a misprint or a misunderstanding of the scribe for 'cow'; for the instance in one MS. of the original French is that of a man who took 'une vache de geules et trois estoiles par dessus.'
Etymology 5
editBlend of church + camp or back-formation from champing.
Verb
editchamp (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champing, simple past and past participle champed)
- To camp overnight in a historic church as a novelty or part of a holiday.
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Chinese
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: cem1
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsem1
- Guangdong Romanization: cém1
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰɛːm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Adjective
editchamp
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang, of a person) champion; brilliant; superb
Franco-Provençal
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin campus m.
Noun
editchamp m (plural champs) (ORB, broad)
References
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French champ, from Old French champ m, inherited from Latin campus m (“field”). Doublet of camp m and campus m.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchamp m (plural champs)
- field in its various senses, including:
- 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 m)
- (heraldry) the background of a shield's design
Derived terms
edit- à tout bout de champ (“constantly, at the drop of a hat”)
- à travers champs
- alouette des champs
- champ clos
- champ de bataille (“battlefield”)
- champ de course
- champ de foire
- champ de force
- champ de manœuvres
- champ de Mars
- champ de mines
- champ de tir
- champ de vision (“field of view, line of sight”)
- champ des morts
- champ du repos
- champ d’action
- champ d’aviation
- champ d’honneur
- champ d’observation
- champ électrique
- champ électromagnétique
- champ gravitationnel
- champ lexical
- champ libre
- champ magnétique (“magnetic field”)
- champ opératoire
- champ scalaire
- champ sémantique
- champ tensoriel
- champ vectoriel
- champagne
- Champagne
- champi
- champs Élysées
- champ’
- clé des champs
- contrechamp (“reverse shot”)
- courir les champs
- échampir
- hors-champ
- mettre aux champs
- prêle des champs
- prendre du champ
- prendre la clé des champs
- prendre la clef des champs
- réchampir
- sur-le-champ (“immediately, at once, straightaway”)
- travaux des champs
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → English: champ
Further reading
edit- “champ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French champ m (e.i.).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchamp m (plural champs)
Descendants
editOld French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin campus m.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchamp oblique singular, m (oblique plural chans, nominative singular chans, nominative plural champ)
- field
- (by extension) battlefield
Descendants
edit(Some via the northern variant camp.)
Scots
editEtymology
editLate Middle English, probably imitative.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editchamp (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champin, simple past champit, past participle champit)
- to mash, crush, pound
- to chew voraciously
Derived terms
editNoun
editchamp (plural champs)
Welsh
editNoun
editchamp
- Aspirate mutation of camp.
Mutation
edit- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kh₂em-
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- English clippings
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- Rhymes:English/æmp
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- en:Architecture
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- Chinese student slang
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- ORB, broad
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- fro:Military
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