Champ vs Monkey - What's the difference?
champ | monkey |
(Ireland, uncountable) a meal of mashed potatoes and scallions
(ambitransitive) to bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
* Hooker
* Dryden
* 1951 , publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 13, page 166, ¶ 18
(informal) champagne
* 1990 , Ann Heller, "Prom Nights Often Offer Students Primer On Fine Dining", Dayton Daily News , 6 April 1990:
* 2009 , :
* 2010 , Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Inheritance , Pan Books (2010), ISBN 9780330513265,
Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.
(label) A mischievous child.
Five hundred pounds sterling.
(label) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
(label) A person with minimal intelligence and/or (bad) looks.
(label) A face card.
(label) A menial employee who does a repetitive job.
The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
(label) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XII
As a proper noun champ
is (cryptozoology) a large aquatic creature, similar to the loch ness monster, which supposedly lives in lake champlain, located on the shared borders of the american states of vermont and new york and the canadian province of quebec.As a noun monkey is
any member of the clade simiiformes not also of the clade hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.As a verb monkey is
(label) to meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.champ
English
Etymology 1
See championDerived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
uncertain, probably imitativeNoun
Verb
(en verb)- They began irefully to champ upon the bit.
- Foamed and champed the golden bit.
- 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 * chompEtymology 3
From (champagne) by shortening.Noun
(-)- "They're dressed up very elegantly and it's nice they have a glass of champ , even if it's non-alcoholic," Reif says.
- We're drinkin' Santana champ , 'cause it's so crisp
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- 'Glass of champ ?' she called, skipping into the kitchen.
Etymology 4
(etyl)Alternative forms
* champeReferences
* English abbreviations ----monkey
English
(wikipedia monkey)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (menial employee) phone monkey, code monkey * brass monkey * capuchin monkey * grease monkey * green monkey * green monkey disease * monkey barge * monkey bars * monkey bike * monkey boot * monkey bread * monkey business * monkey dance * monkey drill * monkey-faced owl * monkey flip * monkey humping a football * monkey in the middle * monkey jacket * monkey motion * monkey nut * monkey orchid * monkey pole * monkey rum * monkey show * monkey spoon * monkey squirrel * monkey stove * Monkey Ward's * monkey orange * monkey pistol * monkey thorn * monkey wrench * not give a monkey'sVerb
- ''Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.
- “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps! Why monkey with weak imitations when you can come close to the original?”