Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To chew or bite on noisily: a horse chomping oats. See Synonyms at bite.
- v. To chew or bite on something repeatedly: chomping on a cigar.
- n. The act or an instance of vigorous biting: "He finished the last of his sandwich with a single chomp” ( Anne Tyler).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A dialectal variant of champ.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of chomping (see below)
- v. intransitive To bite or munch loudly or heavily.
- v. transitive To chew something loudly or heavily.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.
WordNet 3.0
- v. chew noisily
- n. the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
Etymologies
- U.S. regional variation of “champ” (verb) (Wiktionary)
- Variant of champ1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“* chomp chomp chomp** tear** rip slowly** chomp chomp** rip slower** pause** gauge pain*”
“* chomp** rip gently** rip more gently** chomp at far end** rip some more** chomp chomp** make c ...”
“Basically, the word chomp was derived from the word champ, which means "to bite or chew loudly.”
“Husbands told me about wives who "chomp" their gum or park the car crooked in the driveway, and wives griped about husbands who leave newspapers on the floor, refuse to put coasters under their drinks or walk around the house naked.”
“But it feels like the boobies have been well and fully chomped to bits - not mention dragged over pavement - so I'm going with 'chomp' as my descriptive verb of choice.”
“The jury's still out on "chomp" (chomp: hot or not?); "gimp" and”
“The "chomp" I can understand, but the "crunch" indicates Wolverine also eats the bones.”
“Were I starving and without the means to start a fire, I would of course throw a line in the lake and chomp down the result of my fishing.”
“Add fries and a Coke and you're talking chomp, but only for a limited time.”
““Unfortunately,” wrote Julia May in the Age, “dozens of photographers caught every unladylike chomp.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chomp’.
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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A List Of The Cutest Words Ever Created!
HEE OK LETS DO IT! I'm v.v. excited! (with thanks to whichbe, Lampbane, bilby, effigy, frogapplause, and fredrx!)
piggy, toesy woesies, snurfle, wiggly, chomp, lewispoo, dobby, dunderhead, cupcake, mumbo jumbo, wigglebop, scuttle and 99 more...
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Monosyllabic.
How much oomph can you fit in one of them words what don't use more than one sound byte.
morph, deign, pip, thwart, swerve, awe, clash, squall, shriek, prowl, throng, deft and 22 more...
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Let's Eat!
Eating Verbs
boil, break bread, breakfast, chew, chomp, chow down, consume, cram, devour, diet, digest, dig in and 48 more...
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Don Martin
Sound affects by the ridiculous cartoonist Don Martin
toob, tweeb, sklishk, kachunk-kachunka-..., ging, zap, zap-pow, thwizzit!, zzzzzz, sploydoing, shlik, plablablabl and 213 more...
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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good ones
grumble, fumble, bumble, stumble, crumble, mumble, jumble, humble, bramble, scramble, amble, ramble and 191 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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ruminate
words to chew on: to try to gain a clue on
pore, chaw, bethink, mull, brood, gnaw, chomp, manducable, tantalus
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