# champ
## English
### Etymology 1

Clipping of champion / championship.

#### Pronunciation

* (US, UK, General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /t͡ʃæmp/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æmp

#### Noun

champ (plural champs)
* (colloquial) Clipping of champion.
* (colloquial, in the plural) Clipping of championship.
    The team failed to make it to the Champs.
* (informal) Buddy, sport, mate. (as a term of address)
    Whatcha doing, champ?

##### Derived terms

* like a champ
* octochamp
* pogchamp

#### Verb

champ (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champing, simple past and past participle champed)
* (informal) To act or behave like a champ; to endure. [with it or up]
** 2012 March 20, Heather Bramante, “Spring Break must-haves!”, in StudentCity Blog‎, archived from the original on 13 April 2016:Either champ it out and post up on the cement or face-down in the sand or get out the hammock and hang it from a palm tree.
** 2011 July 8, “Training When Tired”, in DeanSomerset.com‎:So on Wednesday I decided to champ up and get in a few couple of workouts all in one day.
** 2004 June 10, “OOOOH! New tyres are fun”, in Motorbike Forums‎:Just take it easy and make sure you don't champ it like a slider.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash the teeth”), perhaps originally imitative.

#### Pronunciation

* (US, UK, General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /t͡ʃæmp/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æmp

#### Noun

champ (usually uncountable, plural champs)
* (Ireland) A dish comprising mashed potato and chopped scallions.
    Synonym: poundies

#### Verb

champ (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champing, simple past and past participle champed)
* (ambitransitive) To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
** 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):They began […] irefully to champ upon the bit.
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Foamed and champed the golden bit.
** 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia‎, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 200: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.”

##### Derived terms

* champ down on
* champ up

##### Translations
#### Derived terms

* champ at the bit
* chomp
* thick as champ

### Etymology 3

From champagne by shortening.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃæmp/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

champ (uncountable)
* (informal) Champagne.
** 1990 April 6, Ann Heller, “Prom Nights Often Offer Students Primer On Fine Dining”, in Dayton Daily News:"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, published 2010, →ISBN:'Glass of champ?' she called, skipping into the kitchen.

### Etymology 4

Borrowed from French champ m (“field”). Doublet of campus and camp.

#### Alternative forms

* champe (obsolete?)

#### Noun

champ (plural champs)
* (architecture, obsolete or rare) The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.
* (heraldry, obsolete or rare) The field of a shield.
** 1914, John Horne Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland, page 30:If a man, he adds, have taken for his arms 'a low of gules in a champ of silver,'$^1$ […] $^1$A flame (pile wavy) gules in a silver field. Thus the arms of the family of Bataille de Mandelot are, Argent three flames, per piles wavy gules, issuant from the base. Woodward, Heraldry, i. 158. Otherwise one might almost suppose that the word 'low' of the MS. was a misprint or a misunderstanding of the scribe for 'cow'; for the instance in one MS. of the original French is that of a man who took 'une vache de geules et trois estoiles par dessus.'

#### Verb

champ (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champing, simple past and past participle champed)
* (heraldry) To set (a surface) with a champ (a contrasting field or background). [with with]
** 1559 July 7, The Ancient Church of Scotland‎, published 1874, page 101:Three of red cloth of gold champed with (with a ground of) velvet. One of white cloth of gold champed with blue velvet. One of red champed with blue velvet.

### Etymology 5

Blend of church +‎ camp or back-formation from champing.

#### Verb

champ (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champing, simple past and past participle champed)
* To camp overnight in a historic church as a novelty or part of a holiday.

##### Related terms

* glamp

### References

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

## Chinese
### Etymology

Clipping of English champion.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): cem$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: cem$^1$
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsem$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: cém$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰɛːm⁵⁵/

### Adjective

champ
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang, of a person) champion; brilliant; superb

## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* tsan (Valdôtain)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin campus m.

### Noun

champ m (plural champs) (ORB, broad)
* field

### References

* champ in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* champ in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French champ, from Old French champ m, inherited from Latin campus m (“field”). Doublet of camp m and campus m.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɑ̃/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Homophones: champs, chant, chants
* Hyphenation: champ

### Noun

champ m (plural champs)
* field in its various senses, including:
** a wide open space
** an area of study
** (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 m)
** (heraldry) the background of a shield's design

#### Derived terms

* à tout bout de champ (“constantly, at the drop of a hat”)
* à travers champs
* alouette des champs
* champ clos
* champ de bataille (“battlefield”)
* champ de course
* champ de foire
* champ de force
* champ de manœuvres
* champ de Mars
* champ de mines
* champ de tir
* champ de vision (“field of view, line of sight”)
* champ des morts
* champ du repos
* champ d’action
* champ d’aviation
* champ d’honneur
* champ d’observation
* champ électrique
* champ électromagnétique
* champ gravitationnel
* champ lexical
* champ libre
* champ magnétique (“magnetic field”)
* champ opératoire
* champ scalaire
* champ sémantique
* champ tensoriel
* champ vectoriel
* champagne
* Champagne
* champi
* champs Élysées
* champ’
* clé des champs
* contrechamp (“reverse shot”)
* courir les champs
* échampir
* hors-champ
* mettre aux champs
* prêle des champs
* prendre du champ
* prendre la clé des champs
* prendre la clef des champs
* réchampir
* sur-le-champ (“immediately, at once, straightaway”)
* travaux des champs

#### Related terms

* camp m
* campagne f
* campanile m
* campus m
* champagne m or f
* champêtre

#### Descendants

* → English: champ

### Further reading

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

## Middle French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French champ m (e.i.).

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

champ m (plural champs)
* field

#### Descendants

* French: champ m
** → English: champ
* >? French: camp m
* → Dutch: kamp n
** Afrikaans: kamp
** Petjo: kamp
** → Indonesian: kamp
** → Sranan Tongo: kampu
*** → Caribbean Javanese: kampu

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* camp (northern)
* chanp

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin campus m.

### Pronunciation

* (classical) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃamp/
* (northern) IPA: /ˈkamp/

### Noun

champ oblique singular, m (oblique plural chans, nominative singular chans, nominative plural champ)
* field
* (by extension) battlefield

#### Descendants

(Some via the northern variant camp.)
* Champenois: champ ? (Troyen), taim ? (Rémois)
* Franc-Comtois: tchaimp m
* Middle French: champ m
** French: champ m
*** → English: champ
** >? French: camp m
** → Dutch: kamp n
*** Afrikaans: kamp
*** Petjo: kamp
*** → Indonesian: kamp
*** → Sranan Tongo: kampu
**** → Caribbean Javanese: kampu
* Norman: camp m (Guernsey)
* Poitevin-Saintongeais: chanp m
* Picard: camp ?
* Walloon: tchamp ?

## Scots
### Etymology

Late Middle English, probably imitative.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tʃam], [tʃamp], [dʒam], [dʒamp]

### Verb

champ (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champin, simple past champit, past participle champit)
* to mash, crush, pound
* to chew voraciously

#### Derived terms

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

### Noun

champ (plural champs)
* (geography) a stretch of ground trodden into a miry state, a quagmire

## Welsh
### Noun

champ
* Aspirate mutation of camp.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.