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单词 cham
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chamn.

Brit. /kam/, U.S. /kæm/
Forms: Also 1500s cam, 1600s chaem: see khan n.1
Etymology: < French and medieval Latin cham, chan, can (also caanus , canis ), < Turki khān lord, prince, khan n.1 a contracted form of the earlier khāqān chagan n.; it was assumed by Chingīz when he became supreme ruler of the Mongols and Tartars; the modified form qā'ān became the specific title of the successors of Chingīz Khān as emperors of China.
a. An obsolete form of khan n.1 formerly commonly applied to the rulers of the Tartars and Mongols; and to the emperor of China. (Rarely to governors of provinces.)
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > emperor > [noun] > khan
khanc1400
cham1553
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xviii. 188 The grete Cane of Cathay.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xxi. 222 Whi he was clept the gret Chane.]
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fi Vnder the dominion of the great Cham Emperour (whiche some call the great Can) of Tartaria.
1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies 265 They haue muche knowledge of the great Cam of Cathay.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 251 I will..fetch you a haire off the great Chams beard. View more context for this quotation
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxiii. §3. 84 One of those [chairs] wherein the principall Chaems of the Empire are usually carried.
1709 London Gaz. No. 4579/1 The Grand Signior had received an Express from the Cham of Tartary.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 181 Prodigal in the production of kings, governors, mandarines, chams, and courtiers.
1813 Examiner 26 Apr. 266/2 Chams are stiff gentlemen.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lviii. 256 Against this Cham [sc. Duke of Guise], and his Beau-Peeres, inuited English goe.
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion v. 4 I..am the great Cham..of all the wits.
1879 W. Synge Tom Singleton II. iii. 32 The great cham of criticism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

chamchammv.

/tʃam/
Etymology: see champ v.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. To bite, chew; = champ v. 1, 2, 3.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > munch or crunch
gruse?c1225
maungec1400
muncha1425
champ1530
crash1530
cham1531
chank1567
scranch1620
grouze1628
craunch1632
crump1647
denticate1799
crinch1808
crunch1814
scrunch1825
chomp1848
chump1854
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. v. 606 It is full harde and maye not be chewed and whyles men chamme theron, the bytter sauour wythin is not felte.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 480/2 Chamme the breed in your mouthe.
1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. cij The prest twitcheth not christes natural body with his handes..ner chammeth yt wyth hys teeth.
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xii. 263 When she my men cham'd in her ugly chaps.
1825 J. Britton Beauties Wiltshire (E.D.S.) Gloss. Cham, to chew.
1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Cham, to chew.
1888 [Heard in Oxford from a native.]
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2. = champ v. 6; to pound, mash. dialect.In South of Scotland, as ‘to cham sand’, for strewing on wet floors.

Derivatives

chammed adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > munched or crunched
chammed1519
champed1600
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxviii. f. 239 Glewe made of chammed whete.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Masché,..chawed chewed, chammed, champed.
ˈchamming n.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > chewing
chewingc1000
chewc1200
mastication?a1425
chamming1528
chawing?1533
champing1592
champ1604
manducation1650
masticating1827
1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 242/1 Not for ye reading & receiuing: but for the busy chamming therof [the scripture].
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 7 They confine them to the chamming of their beads.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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