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Chammed vs Champed - What's the difference?

chammed | champed |

As verbs the difference between chammed and champed

is that chammed is (cham) while champed is (champ).

chammed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cham)

    • 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 [...]

    Anagrams

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    champed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (champ)

    • champ

    English

    Etymology 1

    See champion

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable)
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    uncertain, probably imitative

    Noun

  • (Ireland, uncountable) a meal of mashed potatoes and scallions

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) to bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
  • * Hooker
    • They began irefully to champ upon the bit.
  • * Dryden
    • Foamed and champed the golden bit.
  • * 1951 , 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

    * champ at the bit * chomp

    Etymology 3

    From (champagne) by shortening.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (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 , :
    • We're drinkin' Santana champ , 'cause it's so crisp
  • * 2010 , Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Inheritance , Pan Books (2010), ISBN 9780330513265, unnumbered page:
    • 'Glass of champ ?' she called, skipping into the kitchen.
    English clippings

    Etymology 4

    (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * champe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) the field or ground on which carving appears in relief

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