champ

See also: Champ, čhamp, and Champ.

English

Etymology 1

See champion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

champ (plural champs)

1. Clipping of champion.
2. (informal) buddy, sport, mate (as a term of address)

   Whatcha doing, champ?

Derived terms

• octochamp

Etymology 2

Uncertain, probably imitative

champ (etymology 2, noun)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

champ (usually uncountable, plural champs)

1. (Ireland) a meal of mashed potatoes and scallions

Verb

champ (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champing, simple past and past participle champed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
   • Hooker

     They began […] irefully to champ upon the bit.

   • Dryden

     Foamed and champed the golden bit.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 200, [1]

     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.”

Translations

to bite or chew

• Bulgarian: дъвча (bg) (dǎvča), хрупам (bg) (hrupam)
• Czech: chroustat
• Danish: gnaske
• German: schmatzen (de)
• Hungarian: csámcsog (hu)
• Maori: katikati
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• Russian: ча́вкать (ru) impf (čávkatʹ), ча́вкнуть (ru) pf (čávknutʹ)
• Scots: champ

Derived terms

• champ at the bit
• chomp

Etymology 3

From champagne by shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃæmp/

Noun

champ (uncountable)

1. (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, The Lonely Island (featuring T-Pain), "I'm on a Boat", Incredibad:

     We're drinkin' Santana champ, 'cause it's so crisp

   • 2010, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Inheritance, Pan Books (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     'Glass of champ?' she called, skipping into the kitchen.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from French champ (“field”).

Alternative forms

• champe (obsolete?)

Noun

champ (plural champs)

1. (architecture) the field or ground on which carving appears in relief
2. (heraldry) the field of a shield

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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French

champ

Etymology

From Middle French champ, from Old French champ, inherited from Latin campus (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of camp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃/

• Audio (France, Paris):

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• Homophones: champs, chant, chants
• Hyphenation: champ

Noun

champ m (plural champs)

1. field in its various senses, including:
   • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:

     ...before a in French an original c has the sound sh, and is spelt ch, as in champ (campus), chambre (camera).

   1. a wide open space
   2. an area of study
   3. (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)
   4. (heraldry) the background of a shield's design

Derived terms

Derived terms

• à tout bout de champ (“constantly, at the drop of a hat”)
• à travers champs
• champ’
• champ d’action
• champ d’honneur
• champ d’observation
• champ de bataille (“battlefield”)
• champ de foire
• champ de course
• champ des morts
• champ de vision (“field of view, line of sight”)
• champ du repos
• champs Élysées
• champ de manœuvres
• champ de Mars
• champ de tir
• champ d’aviation
• champ électrique
• champ électromagnétique

• champ clos
• champ gravitationnel
• champ lexical
• champ libre
• champ magnétique (“magnetic field”)
• champ opératoire
• champ scalaire
• champ tensoriel
• champ vectoriel
• Champagne, champagne
• champi
• clé des champs
• contrechamp (“reverse shot”)
• courir les champs
• hors-champ
• mettre aux champs
• prendre du champ
• réchampir, échampir
• sur-le-champ (“immediately, at once, straightaway”)

Related terms

• camp
• campagne
• campanile
• campus
• champagne
• champêtre

External links

• “champ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• chanp
• camp (Old Northern French)

Etymology

From Latin campus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃamp/

Noun

champ oblique singular, m (oblique plural chans, nominative singular chans, nominative plural champ)

1. field
2. (by extension) battlefield

Descendants

• Middle French: champ
  • French: champ
• Walloon: tchamp

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Scots

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʃam], [tʃamp], [dʒam], [dʒamp]

Verb

champ (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champin, simple past champit, past participle champit)

1. to mash, crush, pound
2. to chew voraciously

Derived terms

• champer (“an implement for mashing or crushing etc., a pestle”)
• champers (“mashed potatoes”)

Noun

champ (plural champs)

1. (geography) a stretch of ground trodden into a miry state, a quagmire

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Welsh

Noun

champ

1. Aspirate mutation of camp.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
camp	gamp	nghamp	champ
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.