Chan vs Cham - What's the difference?

chan | cham |

As a noun chan

is foot, leg.

As a verb cham is

to sting, to prick.

chan

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)

An IRC channel.

* 1997', "Dominic Donegan", ''Is there a #nethack '''chan on IRC?'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.nethack )

I tried, but I never get anyone in the chan ! I don't know how/where to advertise... maybe we should set up a meeting time or something?

Derived terms

* chanop

Etymology 2

From , a popular imageboard.

Noun

(en noun)

An imageboard.

English 4chan slang ---- ==Ch'orti'==

Noun

(head)

snake

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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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