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chad | cham |

As a noun chad

is (uncountable) small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, punched cards, paper tape etc.

As a verb cham is

to sting, to prick.

chad

English

(wikipedia Chad)

Etymology 1

(etyl) Ceadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh century saint, revived in the 20th century.

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • . Also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names
  • (British) The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti.
    • Quotations
    * 1993 , Devil's Waltz , Random House 1998, ISBN 0345460715, page 26: *: "What else? Anyway, here's the genealogy: Charles Junior's only son is Charles the Third - like royalty. He goes by Chip - Cassie's daddy. The mom is Cindy. The dead son was Chad - Charles the Fourth." *: "All Cs," I said. "Sounds like they like order." * 1995 , The Black Album , Faber and Faber, ISBN 0571150861, pages 88, 90 *: 'He used to be called Trevor Buss.' *: 'Chad ? I don't believe you.' - - - *: 'He changed his name into Muhammad Shahabuddin Ali-Shah.' *: 'No!' *: 'He'd insist on the whole name. He played football and his mates got fed up saying, "Pass the ball, Muhammad Shahabuddin Ali-Shah" - - - No one passed to him. So he became Chad .' English diminutives of male given names

    Etymology 2

    Believed to be from (etyl) tsade ("lake", after )

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Chad.
    • Hypernyms
    *Subsahara
    See also
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    cham

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) cham, from (etyl) (borrowed into Arabic, Persian, Mongolian etc.).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1840 , Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War?
    • But Baiothnoi, chief captain of the Tartarian army (for they were not admitted to speak with the great cham himself), cried quits with this friar, outvying him with the greatness and divinity of their cham; and sent back by them a blunt letter
  • An autocrat or dominant critic, especially .
  • * 1997': "Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the '''Cham sixty-four." — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
  • * 2007': The Tonsons would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great '''Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication — Michael Dobson, ‘For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen’, ''London Review of Books 29:9, p. 3

    • Etymology 2

    See chap.

    Verb

    (chamm)
  • (obsolete) To chew.
  • * 1531 , William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
    • But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming , or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]

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